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SUMMARY:Research seminar: Dr Patrick Quinn (UCL)\, Geochemical Warfare: E
 xploring Elemental Patterning within Emperor Qin Shihuang's Terracotta A
 rmy\, China
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DESCRIPTION:Emperor Qin Shihuang’s ‘Terracotta Army’ is a ceramic assembl
 age of immense scale\, importance and world renown. These c. 7\,000 orna
 te life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses were installed in battle forma
 tion in three underground pits\, outside the tomb of the first emperor o
 f China\, in order to protect him in his afterlife. The terracotta army 
 and the wider 20 km2 mausoleum complex that it forms part of was built i
 n a relatively short time between 247-210 BC and may have involved 700\,
 000 craftsmen and labourers brought in from across the Qin Empire. Detai
 led morphological\, spatial and compositional analysis of these and othe
 r mass produced objects unearthed from the site\, are providing key insi
 ghts into the organisational strategies behind the realisation of a proj
 ect of such extreme size\, including the division of labour\, quality co
 ntrol and standardisation. Such information is of prime importance for o
 ur understanding not only of the mausoleum itself\, but also Qin Period 
 China more generally. This paper presents the results of new data on the
  geochemical composition of a selection of complete statues from the ‘VI
 P area’ of Pit 1\, which feature stamps or inscriptions that may be indi
 cative of the workshops that produced them. Examples of foot-soldiers\, 
 charioteers\, middle-ranking officers\, civil officials and terracotta h
 orses have been analysed using a bespoke pXRF calibration and their intr
 a and inter-compositional variation have been explored.
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LOCATION:2.03\, Mansfield Cooper Building\, Manchester
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