🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi al-Qattafi Kite Field (Three-Arm Wadi System)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Ghassulian) · Black Desert nomadics
Three-arm wadi with 38 kites on basalt mesas above the Qa al-Qattafi playa: densest Black Desert kite field.
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Maitland East Ridge Chapel Kites (Eastern Jabal Maitland Sacred Ridge)
PPNB Late–PN (7100–6000 BCE) · Maitland Mesa chapel-associated trappers (SE Badia Late Neolithic)
8 Maitland triangular-pen kites 750 m with chapel 40 m from pen QEM-03 — quern butchery slab and infant burial chapel.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Maitland's Mesa Kite Enclosure (Maitland's Hillfort Mesa)
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Harrat pastoral foragers
Historic type-site where RAF pilot Maitland coined 'desert kite' (1927): 11 kites and cairn chain on basalt mesa.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi Al-Qattafi South Mesa Chain Kites (Southern Basalt Mesas Qattafi)
PPNB Late to Late Neolithic (7200–5000 BCE) · Qattafi basin pastoral trappers (Wadi al-Qattafi group)
10 south mesa kites 695 m: 320–780 m walls using 40% natural escarpment as barrier, mesa-lee pens with burial cairn cutting wall.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jabal Wisad Desert Kites (Wisad Pools Black Desert)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic · Black Desert pastoral foragers
Jabal Wisad plateau kites: 14 funnels on Black Desert inselberg above Neolithic Wisad Pools.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jabal Wisad East Fallout Kites (Eastern Piedmont Debris Fan)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Late to Pottery Neolithic (7000–6000 BCE) · Wisad east fan pastoral hunters
9 eastern tephra-fan kites 685 m: Y-branch walls 180–420 m and oval pens with desert wheels and fossilized hoof prints.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Wadi al-Khub Mustatils
Late Neolithic, Eastern Badia Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic hunters
7 mustatil enclosures (5500-5100 BCE) on Wadi al-Khub hammada, northernmost Levantine mustatil bridging Arabia to Jordan kite province.
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Qasr Azraq North Kite Field (Azraq Oasis Northern Fringe)
PPNB to Pottery Neolithic (wetland phase) · Azraq wetland foragers
Oasis-edge kite group on the Azraq mudflat–hamada beach ridge: 12 low-angle V-traps for wetland fauna.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jibal al-Khashabiya Desert Kites & Shrine Complex (SE Jordan Desert)
PPNB to Late Neolithic (Ghassanian) · Southeastern Badia foragers
Eight kites with engraved kite petroglyph pillar and twin shrines on chert pavement southeast of Amman.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Maitland South Cairn-Connector Kites (Southern Cairn Chain Kites)
PPNB Late to Late Neolithic (7000–5500 BCE) · South Maitland cairn-alignment community (Maitland Badia Late Neolithic)
9 linearly cairn-connected kites 715 m: 280–650 m walls linked by 2-m cairn chain every 45–80 m to Qasr Usaykhim.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jabal Wisad Central Plateau Kites (Central Wisad Basalt Table)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Late to Pottery Neolithic (7200–6200 BCE) · Black Desert PPNB pastoral hunters (Wisad Pools group)
11 central plateau kites 730 m: funnel walls 280–620 m to star pens with chert anvil, highest packing density on Wisad.
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Harrat Al-Sham West Edge Kites (Western Harra Scarp Line)
PPNB Late–PN (7500–6000 BCE) · Harra west scarp Harra limestone–basalt contact trappers
12 scarp-edge hybrid kites 820 m: 250–720 m split-material walls (basalt vs limestone) converging to brink chute with 8–12 m natural drop.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Maitland East Mesa Kite Chain (Ghabit–Maitland Corridor)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Black Desert ridge pastoralists
Ridge chain ESE of Maitland's Mesa: 9 notch-anchored kites along 6.2 km Ghabit basalt ridge.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi Rashid North Meander Kites (Northern Loop Meander Field)
PPNB Late–PN · Wadi Rashid meander peninsula trappers
1 peninsula meander kite 700 m: only 500 m artificial walls (220+280) closing 320° natural cliff loop peninsula with star pen 24 m.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Jibal al-Khashabiyeh Kites
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Eastern Badia Neolithic pastoral-hunters
16 interlinked limestone kite traps (5000-3500 BCE) forming 1.2-km chain blocking wadi mouths on Jibal al-Khashabiyeh.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Anabata (Anabeta) Reservoir Old City (Wadi Abu al-Qittayn Cistern City)
Hellenistic to Byzantine 250 BCE–450 CE · Hellenistic Balqa then Roman Decapolis chora
Walled twin cisterns 22×12×6 m 2,800 m³ with 420-m channel + 18 m dam closing gully — Hellenistic cistern-city 580×320 m.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Jawa Dam – World's Oldest Known Dam Network (3000 BCE)
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze IA (Levantine proto-urban) · Levantine Early Bronze proto-urban pastoralists
3000 BCE basalt proto-city with 5 dams and canals—the second-oldest hydraulic network.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jabal Ithnayn East Col Kites (Twin Peaks Eastern Pass)
PPNB Late to LN (7000–5500 BCE) · Ithnayn twin-cone pass trappers (Maitland–Kheshabiyeh fringe)
6 pass-straddling kites 740 m: 900 m walls ascend 38° cone slopes to dual opposing pens in 420 m col — only ridge-break kite system.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi al-Hasa Kite Cluster (Kerak–Tafila plateau, Jordan)
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (Timnian to EB I) · Timnian–Ghassulian to EB I plateau pastoralists
28 Wadi al-Hasa plateau kites (4500–3000 BCE) with 15 meadow lures — Edom rim hunting province.
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Harrat al-Harrah Kite Cluster (Eastern Jordan Highlands)
Neolithic (Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) · Late PPNB steppe-hunting tradition
Eastern rim kite chain of the Jordanian Harrat basalt plain (880 m, 31°02′21″N 37°30′00″E) where basalt peneplain meets limestone Hamad: 18 desert kites arrayed along 17 km N-S per Jibal…
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Azraq Basin Desert Kites (Qa al-Azraq Deflation Rim)
Late Neolithic (PPNB-related) · Azraq oasis Neolithic foragers
Kite field on the basalt deflation rim of Qa al-Azraq sebkha (520 m, 31.83°N 36.82°E), the lowest point of the 12,700 km² Azraq Basin shared with Syria (94% in Jordan) and Saudi.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Bir Aliqua Qanat – Ma'an Plateau (Wadi Araba fringe)
Nabataean to Late Roman · Nabataean / Roman Arabia
3.2-km Nabataean–Roman rock-cut qanat (100 BCE–400 CE) with 28 shafts — Ma'an plateau.
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Jibal al-Khashabiyeh South Kite Field
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic · PPN / Yarmoukian pastoralists
45 PPNB desert kites (8000–5500 BCE) — southern extension of Khashabiyeh mega-cluster.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Jabal Wisad South Chain Desert Kites (Southern Basalt Plateau)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Late Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic pastoral-hunting
Wisad south kite chain: 7 desert kites (8500–6200 BCE) on Black Desert basalt, 6 km SSE of pools.