{
  "id": 16934939,
  "title": "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",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/did-women-and-children-collaborate-with-male-artisans-to-create",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-28T17:03:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-women-and-children-collaborate-with-male-artisans-to-create-chinas-terra-cotta-army-fingerprints-left-on-the-2000-year-old-clay-warriors-may-hold-the-answer-180989767/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}