Terracotta Army, craftspeople, marking practice, spatial analysis (Other Keyword)
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Who made the China’s Terracotta Warriors and how? --- spatial interpretation on marking evidence (2016)
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A striking feature of Qin material culture (770-210 BC) in ancient China is the frequency with which it preserves stamped, incised or painted marks with a variety of Chinese characters, numerals or symbols. In a general sense, such repeated mark-making was an administrative strategy that enabled Qin administrators to mobilise people, raw materials and finished goods in vast bulk, subject to careful quality and quantity control, and archaeologically, this strategy is nowhere more obvious than in...