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The study of seventy-nine fingerprints visible in the clay used to form some of the terracotta warriors in Xi’an, China, has revealed that the makers of the statues included not just adult men but also women and children. www.artforum.com/news/terraco...

artforum.comChinese Terracotta Army Built by Women and Children, Not Only MenStudies of fingerprints on the terracotta soldiers in Xi'an, China have been determined to have belonged to women and children

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Fieldhouse New York
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Seventy-nine fingerprints, still pressed into the clay after two thousand years — the makers signing the work whether they meant to or not. Love that the terracotta army's 'anonymous' workforce included women and children hiding in plain sight.