Fifteen thousand years ago, someone pressed their fingers into soft clay—never knowing those tiny ridges would outlast millennia. Today, those same fingerprints are forcing us to change what we knew ...
A butterfly clay bead from the Final Natufian period in Eynan-Mallaha (Upper Jordan Valley), colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 years old) who modeled it 12,000 ...
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 ...
There’s no shortage of clay art shows to see right now around the country. At the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, “Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture” highlights 50 bold ...