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Publications

Publications of The Wall Project

New Publication (the Gobi Wall):

Golan Dan, Shelach-Lavi Gideon, Amartuvshin Chunag, Zhang Zhidong, Wachtel Ido, Chen Jingchao, Angaragdulguun Gantumur, Lubel Itay, Heimberg Dor, Cavanagh Mark, Ullman Micka and Honeychurch William (2025). Exploring the Gobi Wall: Archaeology of a Large-Scale Medieval Frontier System in the Mongolian Desert. Land 25: 14, 1087. 

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​​New Publication (the Mongolian Arc):

Shelach-Lavi, Gideon; Amartuvshin, Chunag; Heimberg, Dor; Wolin, Daniela; Angaragdulguun, GantumurRogovski, T; al, Chen, Jingchao; Fenigstein, Or; Steiner, Tikvah and Honeychurch, William (2025). Life along the medieval frontier: Archaeological investigations of the southeastern long wall of Mongolia. Antiquity (doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.49). 

 

 

Steiner, Tikvah, Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Johannes S. Lotze, Zhidong Zhang, Amartuvshin Chunag, Angaragdulguun Gantumur, and Rivka Rabinovich (2025). Subsistence and survival along the medieval long-wall system of northern China and Mongolia: A zooarchaeological and historical perspective. Archaeological Research in Asia 43: 100639.​​​​

Hanks, Bryan K., Gideon Shelach-Lavi, Marc Bermann, Emily Eklund, Aspen Greaves, Chunag Amartuvshin, Narantsetseg Tserendash, Yonatan Goldsmith, Jargalan Burentogtokh, Ulambayar Erdenebat (2024). Examining Medieval Long-Wall Frontier Systems (11th – 12th centuries AD) through Archaeological Geophysics in the Eastern Mongolian Steppe Region. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 60: 104860.

Amartuvshin Chunag, Gideon Shelach-Lavi, William Honeychurch, Batdalai Byambatseren, Orit Shamir, Uuriintuya Munkhtur, Daniela Wolin, Shuzhi Wang, Nofar Shamir (2024). An Elite Grave of the Pre-Mongol Period, from Dornod Province, Mongolia. Archaeological Research in Asia 39.

Fung, Ying Tung, Angaragdulguun Gantumur, Ido Wachtel, Amartuvshin Chunag, Zhidong Zhang, Or Fenigstein, Dan Golan & Gideon Shelach-Lavi (2023). Unraveling the Mongolian Arc: A Field Survey and Spatial Investigation of a Previously Unexplored Wall System in Eastern Mongolia. Journal of Field Archaeology 49(4): 225–242.

Shelach-Lavi, G., T. Ulus and G. Avni (2023). Insights from a Recent Workshop on Walls, Borders, and Frontier Zones in the Ancient and the Contemporary World. Offa’s Dyke Journal 5: 13-18

Storozum, M., D. Golan, I. Wachtel, Z. Zhang, J. S. Lotze, and G. Shelach-Lavi (2021). Mapping the Medieval Wall System of China and Mongolia: A Multi-Method Approach. Land 10(997).

Shelach-Lavi, G., Y. Jaffe and G. Bar-Oz (2021). Cavalry and the Great Walls of China and Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(16): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024835118

Shelach-Lavi, G., Honeychurch, W. and Chunag, A (2020). Does extra-large equal extra-ordinary? The ‘Wall of Chinggis Khan’ from a multidimensional perspective. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7, 22. 

Shelach-Lavi G, Ido Wachtel, Dan Golan, Otgonjargal Batzorig, Amartuvshin Chunag, Ronnie Ellenblum, and William Honeychurch (2020), Medieval long-wall construction on the Mongolian Steppe during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries AD. Antiquity 94(375): 724-741.

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