Ancient Fingerprints Rewrite Who Crafted China’s Terracotta Army
A new study has found that the people who made China’s Terracotta Army may have included women and children, not only adult men. Researchers reached that conclusion after examining tiny fingerprints pressed into the wet clay of 36 warriors. The finding adds a human dimension to one of archaeology’s most imposing monuments and challenges a long-standing assumption about Qin imperial labor.
Fingerprints in Wet Clay
The research, published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage, examined 79 usable fingerprints from Unit T23 in Pit 1. The study was led by Xiaoxi Li of the Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum, while a Phys.org report explains how the marks were measured on heads, arms, armor and other parts of the figures.
Rather than assigning an age and sex to each print, the researchers used a Bayesian mixture model to estimate the makeup of the group as a whole. The model attributed about 45 percent of the prints to adult men, 32.7 percent to adult women and 22.3 percent to juveniles under 15. As the study puts it, “the artisan community was not exclusively composed of adult males.”
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