Agriculture changed the human story forever, jetpacking our species into an era of unprecedented growth and complexity. But ...

Archaeologists in Israel have analyzed a trove of clay beads and pendants sculpted by hunter-gatherers 15,000 years ago.

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 ...

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 ...

African pottery-inspired clay bead wall hangings are a beautiful blend of culture and creativity. These hangings, made from ...

Discoveries made by archaeologists suggest that the first villagers used clay not to cook, but to tell stories about who they ...

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 ...

Researchers identified 19 different types of beads, whose shapes are reminiscent of plants that were harvested by Natufians, and were vital to their lives, such as wild barley, lentils, and peas. A ...