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 ...
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 ...
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 ...