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Fingerprints on ancient terracotta figurines show men, women and children worked on figurines

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Fingerprints on ancient terracotta figurines show men, women and children worked on figurines

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A recent preliminary study by Ph.D. student Leonie Hoff of the University of Oxford, published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, provides insight into how ancient fingerprints left on terracotta figurines reveal the age and sex of their makers.

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Wow. So men and women are so distinct that you can even differentiate between them by their fingerprints?
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  That surprised me too.

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

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