Children shaped clay 15,000 years ago, long before pottery or farming, archaeologists find

"Profound Social and Cognitive Changes Were Already Underway”: 15,000 Years Ago, Humans Shaped Clay for Ritualistic Purposes

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As life changed: Natufians made earliest known jewelry of clay, 15,000 years ago

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Children shaped clay 15,000 years ago, long before pottery or farming, archaeologists find

Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay with their hands, carefully, deliberately, and sometimes playfully. Some of those hands belonged to children.