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jensnotroff.com Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Jun 11
Right here in all its glory! 😉👍

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Figure from the scientific paper linked in skeet, showing a close-up of the so-called Vestonice Venus' back. An area where a fingerprint has been presevered, is marked. Next to it, the fingerprint is depicted in detail.
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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jensnotroff.com Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Nov 27
Alright, one more. Because the big fancy stuff is cool and all, but sometimes it's the small thing which really take your breath.

Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉
Photo of a small black lump of indifferent shape but with small lines of a fingerprint.
December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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chapps.bsky.social Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · Dec 12
Oh, those are wonderful. You never know if curators have spotted the fingerprints, so it doesn't hurt to ask them if they've seen them. Here's a terracotta votive head that's quite literally covered in fingerprints. Zoom in! Of course, they would have been hidden under paint.

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Votive female terracotta head
A votive female head, possibly representing a deity, wears a veil and a beaded necklace. Her hair is parted at the center and is pulled back in tight wavy locks that cover her ears. She wears a tall h...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Forensic Experts Help Reveal 43 000 Year Old Neanderthal Mark

#NeanderthalDiscovery #AncientFingerprint #PrehistoricArt #ArchaeologyFind #ForensicScience #HumanOrigins #StoneAgeArt #PrehistoricEurope #AncientHistory #PaleolithicEra
43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Fingerprint Discovered on Ancient Pebble
Archaeologists Discover 43,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Fingerprint with Help from Forensic Police In a remarkable crossover between archaeology and modern crime-solving, researchers
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May 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Neanderthals: leaving their mark—literally. 🖐️ A 43,000-year-old fingerprint found on a face-shaped rock in Spain may be the oldest human fingerprint ever discovered. Art or ancient emoji? You decide. #NeanderthalArt #AncientFingerprint #Archaeology #SymbolicThought
43,000-year-old human fingerprint is world's oldest — and made by a Neanderthal
The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of symbolic art.
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May 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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chapps.bsky.social Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · Dec 17
Yep, that's a thumbprint on the ear! You can understand how it got there - done when the potter attached the ear by pressing it onto the wet clay. You can see additional parts of fingerprints on the eye and around the top of the trunk, where it attached to the head. 🏺 2/
Closeup of the head of the elephant guttus (pourer) showing the partly iridescent blue ear with a distinct fingerprint - probably a thumbprint - pressed into its surface.
December 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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They're everywhere!🥳
ticiaverveer.bsky.social Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · Dec 12
A new study of caulking and cordage fragments of the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia revealed the presence of a partial fingerprint in the tar used to waterproof it.
www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fing...
caulking fragment showing fingerprint on the left and high-resolution x-ray tomography scan of fingerprint region on the right. Photography by Erik Johansson, 3D model by Sahel Ganji.
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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chapps.bsky.social Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · Dec 12
The figurine is from Myrina, Turkey, part of the Roman province of Asia Prima (Greek Aeolia), ca. 100 BCE. It's painted with vibrant pigments: blue, pink, red, white.

Best of all is the *thumbprint* of the potter on the knee of the older woman (guess who found this?). 🏺 2/

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Closeup of the right knee of the older woman, where all the pigments have degraded, leaving the bare orangey terracotta. On it is an imprint of a thumb, turned to about a 45º angle, as you'd expect if someone were holding the wet clay in both hands. There are undoubtedly several fingerprints under all of the pigments, something the original owner would never have seen. A few years back, I spotted the thumbprint on a high res photo I took of this figurine, and reported it to the British Museum. They had never seen it before, so the print was added to the object's archived info (they track these examples of fingerprints).
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Yes, again.😃
December 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Today after I was finished with why I was there I had a look at the other artefacts for fun (although I've been there dozens of times, every time something new draws my attention inside these silent display cases). Anyway, I found new #ancientfingerprint s 😃
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A clay tablette envelope with cylinder seal imprints and cuneiform marks on it Label: Kaniş Karum'unun Kararı Verdict of Kanesh Karum Pişmiş Toprak | Terra Cotta
February 9, 2026 at 2:13 PM