ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
The Wall: People and Ecology in Medieval Mongolia and China
Why did some (but not all) Chinese dynasties invest huge amount of resources in the construction of ‘Great Walls’? The proposed project will focus on precisely that question, in an attempt to unravel what is perhaps the most enigmatic episode of ‘Great Wall’ construction. Roughly dated to the 10th-13th centuries CE and located far to the north of other ‘Great Wall’ lines, this Medieval Wall System (MWS) is one of the longest walls ever constructed in world history, stretching over more than 3,500 km and including large auxiliary structures (Fig. 1). The amount of resources invested in this MWS must have been enormous, but historical sources are mute about its construction, and modern…
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