(2024, November 13). 12,000-year-old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology. ScienceDaily . Retrieved November 20, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 11 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...