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posted by [personal profile] elanya at 11:11am on 29/09/2009 under
-go in to school for office hours
-read about Mongols/work on presentation
-set up electrolysis/talk with Donny
-see about getting stuff to draw maps - half done - getting pens from [livejournal.com profile] belryan (thanks :)

-finish reviewing paper
-check Meniketti references
-email M and F re: images

-romulans or sewing - sadly, I think not :/
location: home - study
Mood:: 'busy' busy
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posted by [identity profile] kamalloy.livejournal.com at 04:36pm on 29/09/2009
Is it wrong to be amused by Romulans or sewing?
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 29/09/2009
Not at all :D
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posted by [identity profile] dhole.livejournal.com at 05:00pm on 29/09/2009
Is this going to be reading about maritime Mongols? I want to know more about Mongols Adventures on the High Seas.
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:06pm on 29/09/2009
I was going to say not - but hey, one of the guys in my program has been running various nautical archaeology projects looking at aspects of the attempted Mongol invasion of Japan :V There is a little blurb on one of them here ^-^
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posted by [identity profile] dhole.livejournal.com at 05:14pm on 29/09/2009
Oh, man. I want to know what that comes up with, because I'd been assuming that the Mongol fleet was basically a Korean and Chinese fleet, with Mongols on board. But why assume that? I mean, there were Mongols there for decades--maybe they did their own ship things. And you've got Zheng He like, what, fifty years after the Yuan dynasty? So it's not as though China lost much nautical ground when under Mongol rule, and I'm . . . I'm kinda just babbling here.

Sorry about that.
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:28pm on 29/09/2009
n/p :)

I think it was, in the end, mostly Korean ships, or ships built in the Korean style, and some Chinese. There wasn't a lot to work with though.

The other project he was working on was a survey of some part of S. Korea (I think?), looking for evidence of the defenses used locally against Mongol invasions by sea from China... I'm less sure about that one - couldn't find the website (if there is one), and I've only heard him talk about it once. Basically - lots of little stakes in the ground, so that when the tide ebbed the ships were stuck/impaled. However, I am not convinced that the stakes didn't serve some other purpose originally, rather than having been laid specifically/purposefully to stop ships.
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:36pm on 29/09/2009
Apparenly I was confused and it was Vietnam, and not Korea. :)
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posted by [identity profile] dhole.livejournal.com at 10:15pm on 29/09/2009
Interesting stuff; as most of my excavating is in Israel, I tend to be suspicious of archaeology done in places important to national myth. I don't suppose there's good dating evidence for those stakes, is there?
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