Walls, ramps and pits: The construction of the Samar Desert kites, southern Negev, Israel

Dani Nadel; Guy Bar-Oz; Uzi Avner; Elisabetta Boaretto; Dan Malkinson

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00067028

Walls, ramps and pits: The construction of the Samar Desert kites, southern Negev, Israel

Dani Nadel, Guy Bar-Oz, Uzi Avner, Elisabetta Boaretto, Dan Malkinson

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Abstract

Archaeological investigations of 'desert kites' in south Israel show them to have been animal traps of considerable sophistication and capacity, constructed in the Early Bronze Age or earlier. Extensive stone-wall arms gather in gazelles from their habitual trails and canalise them into a sunken enclosure, cunningly hidden from view of the galloping herd until it was too late...

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	976-992
Number of pages	17
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	84
Issue number	326
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00067028
State	Published - Dec 2010

Keywords

Animal management
Early Bronze Age
Hunting
Israel
Levant
Trapping

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Archaeology
General Arts and Humanities

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