1. The South Arabian form and its implications for the interpretation of desert kites.
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Brunner, Ueli
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HUNTING , *DRY stone walls , *STONE walls , *ANIMAL traps , *TRAPPING equipment - Abstract
There is a distinctive type of desert kite in southern Arabia. On low-resolution aerial photographs it has the form of a Y and a closer look reveals a scissor-shaped structure. The head and the tails are very distinctive: the head is an open structure with a continuous wall on the right side and many chambers on the left; the tail consists of many piles of stones arranged in a straight line, and only towards the head does it change into a continuous wall. These impressions, together with the-now known-wide distribution of desert kites in non-arid regions as well, lead to the idea that the stone alignments of Carnac in France could also have served as animal traps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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