- Tytuł:
- Central Asian köshks from the Islamic period before the Mongol conquest: fortified, semi-fortified or unfortified?
- Autorzy:
- Piekarz, Piotr
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1635181.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2019-12-31
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
- Tematy:
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Central Asia
Middle Ages
köshks
residences
fortifications
war technique - Opis:
- In their external appearance, the Islamic-period köshks in Central Asia, especially the characteristic buildings with corrugated outer walls, dated broadly speaking from the 7th–8th century AD to the times of the Mongol conquest at the beginning of the 13th century, are apparently fortified. However, they lack a number of features characteristic of defensive buildings. Their interpretation as residential structures in this period is indisputed, hence their apparent defensiveness has been attributed to a line of evolution from pre-Islamic architecture of this type, which played a military role. A review of various defensive elements present in these structures, compared with buildings from an earlier period, highlights this process. An apparent exception is the Great Kyz Kala at Merv, Turkmenistan, which may have not lost its defensive capacity immediately, as recent research by the UCL Institute of Archaeology Ancient Merv Project has demonstrated.
- Źródło:
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean; 2019, 28(2); 493-508
1234-5415 - Pojawia się w:
- Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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