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 ...

Discovered in present-day Israel, the beads suggest that Natufian groups used clay for symbolic purposes many years earlier than scholars previously thought, according to a new study ...

Clay ornaments created 15,000 years ago show that symbolic expression began before agriculture. Evidence suggests both children and adults participated, highlighting early social and cultural ...

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 ...

Children were shaping clay 15,000 years ago - long before pottery became common, according to new research. Discoveries made by archaeologists in what is now Israel suggest that the first villagers ...

Beads add color and texture to your lanterns, making them even more beautiful. Pick beads in shades that go with your design ...

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 ...