Ancient fingerprints reveal children created some of the world’s earliest clay ornaments, offering new clues about early ...

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

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

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem reported that Natufian hunter-gatherers produced 142 beads and pendants uncovered by archaeologists.

Researchers identified 19 different types of beads, whose shapes are reminiscent of plants that were harvested by Natufians, ...

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

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

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

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

Analysis and reconstruction of a warp-weighted loom from the second millennium BC site of Cabezo Redondo, Spain, provides an unprecedented glimpse into the development of textile technology in the ...

A longstanding archaeological question - whether there was early human activity in the West Liaohe River Basin and even the wider Inner Mongolian Plateau - has finally received a definitive answer.

Design engineer makes it his life's mission to bring back the ancient craftsmanship of black pottery, taking it out of museum collections and into homes for everyday use, Wang Xin reports. Song Qiujun ...