Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...

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Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...

A 12,000-year-old tool used to spin fibers into yarn has been identified in an archaeological dig in northern Israel, ...

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A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a collection of 12,000-year-old perforated stones that might represent one of ...

The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone in the development of rotational tools.

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

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