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,

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 ...

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,

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 of a spinning wheel.

Researchers have analyzed a collection of donut-shaped, perforated stones from the Nahal-Ein Gev II archaeological site, dating back about 12,000 years. They propose that these stones, likely used as spindle whorls,