A carefully crafted figure of a goose and a woman suggests that art reflecting spiritual beliefs entered a new phase among early villagers in the Middle East.

Journal Reference: Davin, Laurent, A 12,000-year-old clay figurine of a woman and a goose marks symbolic innovations in ...

Donald L. Sparks, Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair in Environmental Soil Chemistry at the University of Delaware and director of the Delaware Environmental Institute, has received the 2016 Pioneer in ...

A new study suggests clay may have been the birthplace of life on Earth. Cornell University researchers found that clay may have served as the first breeding ground for the complex biochemicals that ...

Acquiring knowledge is one of the great pleasures of reading nonfiction, an experience that’s only slightly less enjoyable when it’s corrective. Two pages into Jennifer Lucy Allan’s “Clay: A Human ...