Abstract
At several locations in the Mongolian steppe, the archaeological remains of large enclosure walls have been found in association with structures and ceramics related to the Mongol and Khitan-Liao empires. These structures are probably the remains of infrastructure built to support large-scale extraction of livestock from the pastoralist population in Mongolia between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. This may be evidence of little-documented taxation policies of steppe states during this period, the scale of the production of resource surplus from the steppe, and examples of state-structured pastoralist landscapes and the state itself in the everyday experience of medieval herders.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 267-292 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Journal | The Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 6 Jul 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- archaeology
- taxation
- Mongol Empire
- Khitan-Liao Empire
- pastoralists