Unique traditional villages on the Loess Plateau of China: historic evolution and challenges to sustainable development of silo-caves
Abstract Silo-cave is a unique human habitation form on the Loess Plateau in northern China, which consists of an excavated 6–7 m deep pit as the courtyard and cave dwellings in the surrounding four walls. This architecture has had a history of more than 7000 years, and yet such “living fossils for...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Heritage Science |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00591-4 |