The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone ...
form a similar wheel-and-axle-like device to help the spindle rotate faster and longer, enabling it to efficiently gather up fibers such as wool or flax and spin them into yarn. This discovery marks ...
The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that ...
A rare glimpse into the Natufian culture and the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural one.
These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...
Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of ...
When connected, they form a rudimentary wheel-and-axle mechanism that can spin fibers like wool or flax into yarn more ...
Archaeologists have found a collection of 12,000-year-old stones in the Middle East which may be the earliest known example ...