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

A new study by researchers from Hebrew University has identified 12,000 years old spindle whorls - early tools used to spin fibers into yarn. This discovery, recovered from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig ...

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

A rare glimpse into the Natufian culture and the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural one.

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

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 ...

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

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

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