Fifteen thousand years ago, someone pressed their fingers into soft clay—never knowing those tiny ridges would outlast ...
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 ...
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 ...