12,000-year-old spindle whorls discovered in Israel suggest early wheel-like technology
The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone in the development of rotational tools.
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These 12,000-year-old Natufian artifacts may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
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Pebbles Push Back the Invention of the Wheel to About 12,000 Years Ago
Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...
12,000-year old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...
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12,000-year-old stones could reveal roots of wheel technology, study suggests
When connected, they form a rudimentary wheel-and-axle mechanism that can spin fibers like wool or flax into yarn more ...