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Kites - as they are often called - are very commonly found in what were Paleolithic human and proto-human areas.

Given this was in Chile and not the Levant, parallel innovation, or less likely but possible long lasting memetic/social transfer is definitely interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_kite

https://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/joa...

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I watched a nice video by Stefan Milo about these recently [0] if anyone is interested.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBmfHkcWj8

I am curious about the evolution of technology that sparks a people to build these. What are the intermediary steps that get you from nothing to coordinating a tribe to construct these over years?

I wonder if they had meetings or 'design committees' to find the most optimal shape with respect to the ease of killing prey eventually.

One possibility on origin (totally made up by me) could be that there were large stones lying around already as debris from e.g. earthquakes, celestial events and such and some groups took advantage of this and later people iterated upon it.

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