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Ancient fingerprints reveal children shaped clay 15,000 years ago
The study reveals children crafted some beads, with the largest known collection of Paleolithic fingerprints confirming their role in 12,000-year-old bead-making.
- Researchers identified children's fingerprints on beads modeled by a 10-year-old, reported on talker.news. The findings suggest children participated in bead-making 12,000 years ago.
- Through lab‑based reconstruction, researchers identified techniques for modeling beads, mainly onto plant‑fiber threads and some using wild cereal straw cores.
- A butterfly clay bead from Eynan‑Mallaha bears fingerprints of a 10-year-old who modeled it 12,000 years ago, along with four other beads from different villages.
- The study presents the largest collection of fingerprints, indicating children participated in bead-making, which reshapes views of prehistoric craft and social learning.
- The dataset offers new material for studying prehistoric craft and social learning, giving researchers fresh evidence to probe ancient behaviour.
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Israeli researcher identifies oldest known collection of clay ornaments in Southwest Asia • 142 beads and pendants made by hunter-gatherers who lived in the Israel area • Fingerprints discovered on the items, making it the largest collection of fingerprints of its kind from the period
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