INVENTORY OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION

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B9 - DRYSTONE WALLS
Olive tree moistened by a dry stone wall similar to the Nabatean teleylat in the quarry of Fantiano in Grottaglie (Apulia).
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.
Terraced glacises of the Apulian Murgia highlands on the Adriatic side organised by means of dry stone walls.
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.
The dry stone walls and the specchie of the Apulian countryside are a titanic work organizing the landscape and useful for catching moisture and maintaining the hydromorphic capacity of the soil.
Ibiza (Spain), terraced fields called tanka.
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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