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Archaeologists have discovered clay figurines in Israel dating back between 15,000 and 11,500 years ago, challenging the belief that clay figurines only became common with the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic age. These Natufian figurines, found at three sites in modern-day Israel, depict various animals and humans, some with traces of pigment. The findings suggest that the Natufian culture, a sedentary hunter-gatherer society, had a more complex symbolic expression than previously thought, with evidence of intergenerational knowledge transmission in clay sculpting.
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