The discovery also included sites in northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq.
Archaeologists at Oxford University have used satellite imagery to study the area surrounding the present-day Nafud desert and found evidence of structures that helped in hunting during prehistoric times, aEarly aircraft pilots have reported sightings of low stone wall structures leading to a head enclosure and guiding walls that often ran for miles.
, around the year 8,000 BCE, and were used to guide prey animals like gazelles into areas where they could be captured or killed.Though they are large structures, kites are not easily visible from the ground. Archaeologists, therefore, rely on open-source information such as those available in commercial satellites or platforms such as Google Earth to find them.
At the new sites, the researchers found the stone walls ran in straight lines for over 2.5 miles , even when the topography varied. This is a mark of the incredible ability of the people considering the time these structures were built. Not only are kites markedly larger than any other constructions built during those times, but the lack of permanent structures around also suggests that the builders stayed in temporary settlements, which have left no trace of their existence.
. This would mean that the climate in the region became drier, leading to the shifting of the communities and even wildlife from the region. A large number of questions still remain unanswered, such as who built these structures, who invested in building them, how many people these structures would feed, and whether the construction sites demonstrate the movement of people or ideas over a period of time.Remote-sensing analysis of open-source satellite imagery has identified a major, new distribution of undocumented hunting kite structures in northern Arabia.
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