Paleobotany and Terracotta army

The BBC reports on an article from the Journal of Archaeological Science about research on the clay that was used to make China’s Terracotta army. They have recovered pollen from the clay and hope to find its source. An interesting part is that different statues may have come from different source materials, or maybe different times of years, based on different pollen content.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Pollen clue to clay army origins