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

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that ...

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

They propose that these stones, likely used as spindle whorls, represent an early form of rotational technology that could ...

A new study by researchers from Hebrew University has identified 12,000 years old spindle whorls — early tools used to spin ...

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

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

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

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

The perforated pebbles from an archaeological dig in northern Israel are likely to be spindle whorls, disc-shaped objects ...

If there is hair on your head, that hair has at least one whorl in it—a patch of hair that grows out of the scalp in a spiral ...