Stone 'runways' used as traps by hunters to corner prey some 2,000 years ago found in South Africa

Stone Age humans were savvy hunters who devised long stone'runways' that could trap animals inside and make them easy prey to kill by the hundreds. These v-shaped structures, called'desert kites,' have been widely observed in the Middle East. Using laser scanning techniques, researchers in South Africa have confirmed these'desert kites' were used much further south in sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed. Found in Keimoes, South Africa, the desert kites are thousands of years newer than ones found in Israel and Syria and indicate a complex understanding of animal behavior and migratory patterns. Light Detection And Ranging, or LiDAR, technology illustrates where the stone walls of the desert kites' funnels were erected, guiding prey into a killing pit Desert kites were traps devised by Neolithic and Bronze Age hunter-gatherers to corner game like cattle, pig and deer.