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Children made some of the middle east’s oldest clay figures
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Children made some of the middle east’s oldest clay figures

So, thousands of years before farming and pottery took hold, Natufian communities were already shaping clay into small figures. Archaeologists have found more than 150 examples, dating back 11,500 to 15,000 years, including animals and people. Ancient fingerprints suggest that children and adults both helped make them, sharing creative skills across generations. Some figures even bear traces of paint, offering a vivid glimpse of how these early communities saw the natural world.
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