Learn how early humans in Israel’s Natufian period used clay ornaments to express identity, share skills, and build social connections before agriculture. Faint fingerprints pressed into tiny clay ...
Fifteen thousand years ago, someone pressed their fingers into soft clay—never knowing those tiny ridges would outlast millennia. Today, those same fingerprints are forcing us to change what we knew ...
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15,000-year-old clay beads made by adults and children may reveal the origins of agriculture
Agriculture changed the human story forever, jetpacking our species into an era of unprecedented growth and complexity. But the shift from wandering hunter-gatherer to settled farmer didn't happen ...
This 12,000-year-old butterfly clay bead was decorated with red ochre and marked with the fingerprints of a child. Laurent Davin Archaeologists in Israel have analyzed a trove of clay beads and ...
A group of Israeli and international researchers uncovered the largest collection of prehistoric clay beads ever documented worldwide among the items excavated at several sites in northern Israel, a ...
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