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.

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Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...

After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...