The discovery of ancient clay beads made by children and adults thousands of years before the use of pottery suggests a ritualistic purpose ...

Learn how early humans in Israel’s Natufian period used clay ornaments to express identity, share skills, and build social ...

Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay ...

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.

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