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

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

The spindle whorls would feature in a wheel and axle arrangement to allow the spinning of fibers into yarn. The post ...

A NEW discovery could shed light on when the first set of wheels were first invented. Scientists have discovered a set of ...

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

Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...

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

When connected, they form a rudimentary wheel-and-axle mechanism that can spin fibers like wool or flax into yarn more ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...

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