While excavating ancient Neolithic hunting traps in Jordan’s southeastern desert near the site of Jibal al-Khashabiyeh, a team from the French Institute of the Near East and Jordan’s Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, co-directed by Wael Abu-Azizeh and Mohammad Tarawneh, made a unique discovery that sheds light on daily life and religious belief in the prehistoric Levant. The traps, known as “desert kites,” were used extensively throughout prehistoric southwestern Asia. Although most have been dated to the fourth and third millennia B.C.E., the kites from Jibal al-Khashabiyeh date more than three millennia earlier, making them one of the earliest large-scale […]
