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Places tagged “harraat”

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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph

Harrat Rahah Kite Field – Tabuk Volcanic Field

Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic · Northwest Arabian Neolithic

37 high-elevation basalt kites (8000–5000 BCE) on Harrat Rahah — NW Saudi volcanic field.

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🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Harrat al-Sham Kite Chain

Pre-Pottery Neolithic · PPN pastoralists

58-kite chain (8000–5500 BCE) along Harrat al-Sham — cross-border spine of kite province.

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🇯🇴 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…