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Did Women and Children Collaborate With Male Artisans to Create China's Terra-Cotta Army? Fingerprints Left on the 2,000-Year-Old Clay Warriors May Hold the Answer
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Did Women and Children Collaborate With Male Artisans to Create China's Terra-Cotta Army? Fingerprints Left on the 2,000-Year-Old Clay Warriors May Hold the Answer

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A new study found that adult women and juveniles under the age of 15 accounted for 67 percent of the fingerprints analyzed. The research challenges long-held assumptions about the age and gender of the workers who sculpted Qin Shi Huang's soldiers

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