This collection of spindle whorls would represent a very early example of humans using rotation with a wheel-shaped tool. They might have paved the way for later rotational technologies ...

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.

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Researchers gave a detailed look into perforated stones collected out of excavations in Israel, and came to the conclusion ...

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 ...

Israel may be humanity's earliest wheels, revolutionizing textile spinning and showcasing ancient Natufian innovation.

The stone artifacts appear again, 4000 years later — and in between ... as she sees these spindle whorls as part of a larger ...

Adding experimental validation to their hypothesis, the researchers replicated these stone whorls and ... Long before the advent of cart wheels in the Bronze Age, this early rotational technology ...

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