Stone Age · c. 13,000–10,000 BC · Hayonim, el-Wad, Nahal Oren and Eynan-Mallaha, Northern Israel
15,000-year-old clay beads with children's fingerprints found at Natufian sites in Israel
The 142 unfired beads and pendants predate pottery and farming, and 50 fingerprints show that children, adolescents and adults all made them.