Fingerprints suggest women and children helped make terracotta warriors
In short
- A new study estimates over half the fingerprints on one batch came from women and children.
- The findings challenge the view that only adult men made the figures.
- The warriors are about 2,200 years old.
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The figures have long been assumed to be the work of adult men. This study uses fingerprints left in the clay to estimate who pressed them, and it points to a larger share of women and children. It is an estimate from one batch, so it shows a likely pattern rather than a settled fact.
From VnExpress
More than half the fingerprints on a batch of China's 2,200-year-old terracotta warriors came from women and children, a new study estimates, challenging the view that only adult men made the figures.
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A long, long time ago, people in China made a huge army of clay soldiers. A new study looked at the tiny fingerprints left in the clay. It suggests that many women and children helped make them. What do you think it would feel like to help make something that lasts for thousands of years?
