Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A butterfly clay bead from the Final Natufian period in Eynan-Mallaha, Hula Valley, colored red with ochre and marked with the ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Israel have analyzed a trove of clay beads and pendants sculpted by hunter-gatherers 15,000 years ago. According to a recent study published in the journal Science Advances, these ...

A butterfly clay bead from the Final Natufian period in Eynan-Mallaha (Upper Jordan Valley), colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 years old) who modeled it 12,000 ...

A butterfly clay bead from the Final Natufian period in Eynan-Mallaha (Upper Jordan Valley), colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 years old) who modeled it 12,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay with their hands, carefully, deliberately, and sometimes playfully. Some of ...