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These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.
Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...
When connected, they form a rudimentary wheel-and-axle mechanism that can spin fibers like wool or flax into yarn more ...
confirmed their theory by building replicas of the stones and successfully spinning flax using them. This collection of ...