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Archaeologists identify traces of children's fingerprints still visible on clay beads created 15,000 years ago

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

Discoveries made by archaeologists suggest that the first villagers used clay not to cook, but to tell stories about who they ...
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Fingerprints suggest kids shaped clay 15,000 years ago, study says

Fingerprints pressed into fired-clay fragments from Ice Age Europe appear to belong to children and adolescents, not just ...
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The earliest clay beads of Humanity, found in Natufian sites from 15,000 years ago, bear 50 fingerprints of children, adolescents, and adults

An international team of archaeologists, led by Laurent Davin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of ...