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 ...

Archaeological findings in Israel push the wheel's origins back to 12,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

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 ...

At a time of year where we start to think of gift-giving, Lucas di Grassi will find something that he’s been after for years ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 12,000-year-old round stones with holes, potentially revealing the wheel's origins.

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Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...

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

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

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

For the last few weeks, we've been testing a front-loader called the Family from Urban Arrow, a Dutch manufacturer that's a ...