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Thousands of stone terrace walls were constructed by past societies in the dry valleys of the central Negev highlands to capture runoff/floodwaters from local rainfall to enable agriculture in the desert. Human intervention in geomorphic processes led to human‐made geodiversity, as significant differences developed between terraced and natural stream channels. The former are characterised by soil...