INVENTORY OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION

PHOTOGRAPHICAL  AND  TYPOLOGICAL  INVENTORY

B8 - PROTECTIVE-LUNETTES-(HEDOMITE-AGRICULTURE)
Olive tree moistened by a dry stone wall similar to the Nabatean teleylat in the quarry of Fantiano in Grottaglie (Apulia).
Saharan mausoleum used as a collector of moisture and water run-off along the slope. The rows of stone convey the flows towards the area protected by the barrow.
Tu'rat.
Tu'rat is a mound of stones in the shape of a crescent
that catches winds full of fog
and conveys them condensed to the neqaba,
cisterns carved out of the limestone rock.
Mounds of stones in the shape of a crescent, circles and rows of stones, found during archaeological excavations in the Hedomite and Nabatean hydroagriculture, common in all arid and Mediterranean areas for plant preservation.
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