The perforations aligned with the stones’ center of mass, optimizing balance ... At the Natufian time, there was nothing like the wheel. They are specializing in fast drilling and fast spinning. But at some point, when rotational technologies became ...

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan Valley were likely used to spin fibers into yarn, a discovery that pushes back the use of the technique by thousands of years,

Researchers have analyzed a collection of donut-shaped, perforated stones an archaeological site dating back about 12,000 years.

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a study published November 13,