Desert kites and prehistoric periods in Iranian plateau

The known area of distribution of kites is very large, from Arabia and the Near East, to Armenia in the Caucasus and the Aralo-Caspian region, namely south-western Kazakhstan and western Uzbekistan (e.g. Barge et al. 2013).although still there is not any official report about its existence in Iranian plateau but regards to the vast distribution of desert kites from Egypt in west to Kazakhstan in east, it is not so worth if we expect to see this prehistoric phenomena in Iranian territory also. The kite structures, typologically well known for decades and often interpreted as giant hunting traps or game drives, are being reappraised by means of a research project called Globalkites (Crassard et al. 2014).These structures, comprising long driving walls or stone alignments (antennae) converging towards an enclosure surrounded by small closed rooms (cells), are being studied through different approaches, including archaeology and geomatics, geoarchaeology, environmental studies, zooarchaeology and animal ethology (e.g. Barge, Brochier & Crassard, this volume 2015; Chahoud, Vila & Crassard, this volume 2015). Desert kites” is a term coined in Near Eastern archaeology for describing large game drives solely found in arid and semi-arid environments. Most kites can be grouped into two major types with many varieties: small triangular, V-shaped structures, and large enclosure-like (Betts and Helms, 1986; Helms and Betts, 1987; Echallier and Braemer, 1995; Betts et al., 1998; Betts and Yagodin, 2000; Kempe and Al-Malabeh, 2010; Kennedy, 2012; Bar-Oz and Nadel, 2013; Barge et al., 2013; Brochier et al., 2014; Crassard et al., 2014). “Desert kites” were first identified in the Near East in