Very interesting, "declining escalation dominance" synthesizes a lot of useful ideas about late antiquity. My next question is "why"? Did centuries of frontier culture diffuse, as opposed to the earlier rapid conquests of Gaul and Balkans which allowed no time for adaptation?
This week on the blog, Fortifications, Part 2 - we're looking at (surprise!) the Romans. In particular, we're looking at how changes in the strategic context changed the goals of Roman forts which in turn changed the forms those forts took:https://acoup.blog/2021/11/12/collections-fortification-part-ii-roman-playing-cards/ …
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So interesting! I wish there were (are there?) documents of people arguing with each other about how the design should change vs "we have always built them this way, we will continue to do so" :D
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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