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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 new ...

Round, weighted objects that are attached to a spindle stick, spindle whorls form a similar wheel-and-axle-like device to ...

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These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

but used for spinning wheels used by potters to make earthenware. In addition, the oldest record of the use of wheeled means ...

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 ...

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

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