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Publications

Publications of The Wall Project

New Book by Johannes S. Lotze: Multilingual Empires Language, Rule, and the Hybrid Imperial Tradition in Ming China (Harvard University Press, 2026).

 

Provisioning and pastoralism along the Mongolian medieval border system: Analysis of Liao and Jin era midden faunal assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2026).

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To Build Or Not To Build? Frontier Walls, Trenches, and Forts in Mid-Jin Politics, 1161–1208, T’oung Pao (2026). 

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Appendix 1: Sources on Jin construction of frontier walls, trenches, and forts.

Appendix 2: Phraseology of Jin border management.

Appendix 3: Overview of historical geographical place names mentioned in the sources.

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Exploring the Gobi Wall: Archaeology of a Large-Scale Medieval Frontier System in the Mongolian Desert. Land (2025).

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Life along the medieval frontier: Archaeological investigations of the southeastern long wall of Mongolia. Antiquity (2025). 

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Subsistence and survival along the medieval long-wall system of northern China and Mongolia: A zooarchaeological and historical perspective. Archaeological Research in Asia (2025).​​​​

Examining Medieval Long-Wall Frontier Systems (11th – 12th centuries AD) through Archaeological Geophysics in the Eastern Mongolian Steppe Region. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2025).

An Elite Grave of the Pre-Mongol Period, from Dornod Province, Mongolia. Archaeological Research in Asia (2024).

Unraveling the Mongolian Arc: A Field Survey and Spatial Investigation of a Previously Unexplored Wall System in Eastern Mongolia. Journal of Field Archaeology (2023).

Insights from a Recent Workshop on Walls, Borders, and Frontier Zones in the Ancient and the Contemporary World. Offa’s Dyke Journal (2023).

 Mapping the Medieval Wall System of China and Mongolia: A Multi-Method Approach. Land (2021)

Cavalry and the Great Walls of China and Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021).

Does extra-large equal extra-ordinary? The ‘Wall of Chinggis Khan’ from a multidimensional perspective. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2020).

Medieval long-wall construction on the Mongolian Steppe during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries AD. Antiquity (2020).

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