The building concept of border defence facilities of Qin: Watchtowers along the King of Zhaoxiang great wall in Shaanxi province

• Xingyi Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xingyi Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

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• Yangyang Tong ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: simayanger123@sina.com

  Affiliation School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3276-1748

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• Xiaoning Ma ,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

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• Jiachen Chang ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

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• Binyan He

  Roles Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

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