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DOI	10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.03.024
	Complicating the frontier: Armaments, fortifications, and identities beyond the Great Wall
	Park, Jang-Sik; Honeychurch, William; Chunag, Amartuvshin
通讯作者	Park, JS
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS
ISSN	2352-409X
出版年	2016
卷号	6 页码:475-487
英文摘要	The recovery of iron and bronze "bimetallic" crossbow bolts from walled settlements located in the Mongolian Gobi Desert reflects the presence of Han dynasty material culture along the Inner Asian frontier during the Xiongnu period (ca. 3rd century BCE - 2nd century CE). Seventeen artifacts, mostly from frontier outposts, including eleven of these bimetallic projectile weapons and two bronze components of crossbows, were examined for their bronze chemical composition and microstructure. A majority of these artifacts were cast from alloys containing substantial amounts of tin and lead, with the alloy content generally much higher and more consistent in the bolts than in other crossbow components. The standard use of both tin and lead in most of these objects, as well as their process of assembly, suggest manufacture in an environment supporting large-scale, mass-production technologies typical of the Han dynasty. Some of the bolts examined, however, were made following significantly different alloy recipes, suggesting that they were likely produced away from well-supplied manufacturing centers. Given the clear limitations of the small number of objects analyzed, we combine our metallurgical results with insights from surface survey around these settlements to propose some preliminary observations about site arrangements, armaments, and supply lines. Although preliminary in nature, these differences hint at the complexities of politics and affiliation along the Inner Asian frontier. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Mongolia Xiongnu Frontier Crossbow Bronze technology Han dynasty
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000415597200047
WOS关键词	ORGANIZATION ; STEEL
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/331964
作者单位	[Park, Jang-Sik] Hongik Univ, Dept Met Engn, Jochiwon 339701, Sejong, South Korea; [Honeychurch, William] Yale Univ, Dept Anthropol, New Haven, CT 06520 USA; [Chunag, Amartuvshin] Mongolian Acad Sci, Inst Archaeol, Ulaanbaatar 51, Mongolia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Park, Jang-Sik,Honeychurch, William,Chunag, Amartuvshin. Complicating the frontier: Armaments, fortifications, and identities beyond the Great Wall[J],2016,6:475-487.
APA	Park, Jang-Sik,Honeychurch, William,&Chunag, Amartuvshin.(2016).Complicating the frontier: Armaments, fortifications, and identities beyond the Great Wall.JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS,6,475-487.
MLA	Park, Jang-Sik,et al."Complicating the frontier: Armaments, fortifications, and identities beyond the Great Wall".JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS 6(2016):475-487.