Children shaped clay 15,000 years ago, long before pottery or farming, archaeologists find - Peer2Peer

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

Mar 18, 2026

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.

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-children-clay-years-pottery-farming.html

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