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 ...

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 ...

If the thought of stringing hundreds of beads onto thread and knitting them into a purse with toothpick-sized needles seems intimidating, you're right. Bead knitting is challenging, but completely ...

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 ...