They called them Works of the Old Men.
The narrow opening at the end of the funnel leads to a circular enclosure or a pit.
LikeBuffalo Jumps, desert kites were generally built where the natural environment helped the hunting effort.
The land had to be flat and between narrow deeply incised gullies or wadis.
Some stone walls were built into small cells so that animals couldnt get out.
Hunting and processing these animals must have involved a large number of people.
Then the carcasses had to be skinned and the meat transported back to their settlement.
Indiscriminate hunting of gazelle with modern firearms continued well into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
