A hardly delectable mark on this shard of clay pottery is one of the oldest human fingerprints ever discovered.
A joint team of archaeologists have discovered a 7,300-year-old human fingerprint – the earliest in the Near East region – in Subiyya in northern Kuwait. The fingerprint was found on a piece of a broken clay pot dating from the Stone Age (8,700 BC to 2,000 BC) in the Bahrah I Excavation Zone in Subiyya. At this same site, archaeologists have also discovered a town, a temple, a cemetery, and other evidence of the community that lived here thousands of years ago, says the director of Kuwait’s National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters.
KUWAIT: The oldest human fingerprint discovered in Kuwait is seen. — KUNAThis fingerprint is the oldest found in this area of the world, but not the oldest ever discovered. Two years ago KONYA – Doğan News Agency informed excavations at the 10,000-year-old Boncuklu mound in ancient settlement of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, have unearthed finger prints on kiln objects.
DHA PhotoA tomography scan of a ceramic statue which is between 29 000 – 25 000 years old revealed the fingerprint of a child aged between 7 and 15 fired into the clay.
The Venus of Dolni Vestonice is the oldest known example of ceramic in the world. Photo:Stan Florek. Copyright:Australian Museumsource:kuwaittimes
