Evaluation of Chinese traditional military settlements’ defensive capabilities via principal component analysis (PCA): a case study of coastal Wei forts in the Ming dynasty

Abstract Defensive capability is one of the essential attributes of traditional military settlements. In the Ming dynasty, coastal Wei fort was the one of the most functionally complex and wide-ranging fortifications in the military defense system of China. Because many factors affect their defensiv...

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Main Authors: Jiayin Zhou, Yilin Jiang, Jiayi Liu, Lifeng Tan, Lingxin Meng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2024-03-01
Series:Heritage Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-024-01209-1