Researchers discovered 8.500-year-old fingerprints in Yeşilova Höyüğü site, Turkey, according to the Hürriyet.
“We have discovered fingerprints that go back 8.500 years, to the Neolithic era. Those fingerprints are thought to belong to children and women”, said Zafer Derin, the scholar leading the excavation.
Yeşilova Höyüğü site, Turkey (Zafer Derin / AA)
The team discovered the fingerprints from clay pots. “Ancient people made the clay pots with other ingredients and thanks to those ingredients – which we have not yet identified – the fingerprints reveal themselves,” said Derin, but added that a fire had badly damaged the pots. “We have also found that the people left the area after the fire occurred”.
Noting that the soil in the area also showed that people used the area for agriculture, Derin said: “Ancient people also used this soil to make clay pots, and we have discovered that more than two people were involved in making clay from the fingerprints.”
