Fingerprints in the Terracotta Army’s clay show women and children helped build it

Researchers say the Terracotta Army was not built by adult men alone. A study in the Journal of Cultural Heritage points to women and children among the makers of the clay soldiers buried with China’s first emperor. The team came from the Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi’an and Shandong University. It studied 79 fingerprints pressed […]

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