Desert kite
Research published in 2022 has identified that pits several metres deep often lie at the edge of enclosures: these have been interpreted as traps and killing pits. The kites enclose surface areas with a median of . Much larger and much smaller sizes are also known. Dating kites is difficult; various dating methods like radiocarbon dating and optically stimulated luminescence have given ages ranging from the early to the late Holocene. Sometimes, there are reports of their use in travel records. Some kites have been replaced by later archaeological structures, eroded or flooded. Sometimes they were used to build more complex shapes. In some places, structures like cairns, tombs or square walls occur alongside kites.