Ancient Desert Kites | The Largest Prehistoric Man-Made Structures
Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe are huge, complex settlements that date back to between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago. There was clear social organisation people had well-developed and varied skills, and for this reason, many find it hard to believe they still hunted and gathered their food.
2024-12-02 21:00:00 - Ancient Architects
But evidence suggests they did and the people that created these settlements also created desert kites - the largest man-made structures of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. They are huge, elaborate hunting traps, so effective that they continued to be used for thousands of years.
Desert kites can be a few hundred metres to several kilometres in length and in this video, I'll be telling you all about these magnificent structures, how they worked and where they can be found in the Taş Tepeler landscape.
00:00 - Introduction
00:27 - Pre-Pottery Neolithic Settlements
01:22 - Gazelle Hunting
02:34 - Desert Kite Hunting Traps
04:31 - Taş Tepeler Kites
06:33 - How Desert Kites Work
10:46 - Curious Desert Kite Zig-Zag
12:15 - Kites and the Landscape
12:50 - Associated Structures
13:27 - Finding Kites on Google Earth
14:04 - Concluding Remarks