🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi Rashid Kite Field (Wadi Rashid Basalt Hamada)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze · Badia Late Neolithic–EBA onager hunters
Wadi Rashid hamada: 5 low-wall kites on open pavement with deep 2.4 m onager pits.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi Al-Qattafi East Arm Kites (Eastern Mesa Kite Line)
PPNB to Chalcolithic · Eastern Badia Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Qattafi east arm: 6 mesa-lip kites driving gazelles off 40-m basalt mesa to playa.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Jabal Ithnayn Kites (Twin Peaks Kite Pass)
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Badia Neolithic peak-pass hunters
Jabal Ithnayn twin-peak gap: 5 kites using two 35-m basalt peaks as natural funnel walls.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Desert Kites of Jordan and Syria
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Bronze Age (~7000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic–Chalcolithic hunter-pastoralist
Over 5,800 kite structures sprawl across the harraat basalt deserts of Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia, each comprising two converging low walls up to 5 km long funneling gazelle herds into a stone…