The Wall: People and Ecology in Medieval Mongolia and China

Project Information

The Wall

Grant agreement ID: 882894

DOI

10.3030/882894

EC signature date 27 April 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 750,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 750,00

Coordinated by

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Israel

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

How long and how strong must a climatic anomaly be in order to evoke a social transformation? Historical and contemporaneous case studies

Author(s): Tal Ulus, Ronnie Ellenblum
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 8/1, 2021, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: spring nature
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00933-4

Exploring the Gobi Wall: Archaeology of a Large-Scale Medieval Frontier System in the Mongolian Desert

Author(s): Dan Golan, Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Chunag Amartuvshin, Zhidong Zhang, Ido Wachtel, Jingchao Chen, Gantumur Angaragdulguun, Itay Lubel, Dor Heimberg, Mark Cavanagh, Micka Ullman, William Honeychurch
Published in: Land, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 1087, ISSN 2073-445X
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/land14051087

Subsistence and survival along the medieval long-wall system of northern China and Mongolia: A zooarchaeological and historical perspective

Author(s): Tikvah Steiner, Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Johannes S. Lotze, Zhidong Zhang, Amartuvshin Chunag, Angaragdulguun Gantumur, Rivka Rabinovich
Published in: Archaeological Research in Asia, Issue 43, 2025, Page(s) 100639, ISSN 2352-2267
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2025.100639

Mapping the Medieval Wall System of China and Mongolia: A Multi-Method Approach

Author(s): Michael Storozum, Dan Golan, Ido Wachtel, Zhidong Zhang, Johannes S. Lotze, Gideon Shelach-Lavi
Published in: Land, Issue 10/10, 2021, Page(s) 997, ISSN 2073-445X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/land10100997

Cavalry and the Great Walls of China and Mongolia

Author(s): Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Yitzchak Jaffe, Guy Bar-Oz
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 118/16, 2021, Page(s) e2024835118, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2024835118

Life along the medieval frontier: archaeological investigations of the south-eastern long wall of Mongolia

Author(s): Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Chunag Amartuvshin, Dor Heimberg, Daniela Wolin, Gantumur Angaragdulguun, Tal Rogovski, Jingchao Chen, Or Fenigstein, Tikvah Steiner, William Honeychurch
Published in: Antiquity, 2025, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.49

Insights from a Recent Workshop on Walls, Borders, and Frontier Zones in the Ancient and the Contemporary World

Author(s): Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Tal Ulus, Gideon Avni
Published in: Offa's Dyke Journal, 2023, Page(s) 13-18, ISSN 2695-625X
Publisher: JAS Arqueología
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10057258

Other (2)

Unraveling the Mongolian Arc: a Field Survey and Spatial Investigation of a Previously Unexplored Wall System in Eastern Mongolia

Author(s): Shelach-Lavi Gideon,Ying Tung Fung, Angaragdulguun Gantumur, Ido Wachtel, Amartuvshin Chunag, Zhidong Zhang, Or Fenigstein, Dan Golan
Published in: JOURNAL OF GIELD ARCHAEOLOGY, 2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2295198

An Elite Grave of the Pre-Mongol Period, from Dornod Province, Mongolia

Author(s): Amartuvshin Chunag, Gideon Shelach-Lavi, William Honeychurch, Batdalai Byambatseren, Orit Shamir, Uuriintuya Munkhtur, Daniela Wolin, Shuzhi Wang, Nofar Shamir
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100537