NEGEV DESERT, ISRAEL—Geochronologist Naomi Porat of the Geological
Survey of Israel used optical dating to measure the amount of radiation
that had been absorbed from the environment by two animal traps
thought to have been recently used by Bedouins to protect their flocks.
One of the traps turned out to be 5,000 years old, the other 1,600
years old. “They look like a pile of stones, like a cairn, and you need a
good eye and also some digging around to realize what it is,” she said.
Sheep and goat herders would have attached a piece of meat to the end
of a rope to bait the trap. When a carnivore pulled on the bait, the
rope closed a slab door, trapping the animal. Predators such as foxes,
wolves, hyenas, leopards, and caracals were probably caught this way in
the Middle East for thousands of years. [...] livescience.com via Archaeology.org
Link 2: (Fourth-millennium-BC ‘leopard traps’ from the Negev Desert (Israel))
Actualización 01-10-13. Descubren en Israel trampas para leopardos de hace 5.000 años
miércoles, 25 de septiembre de 2013
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