Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...

A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...

Recent archaeological findings have unearthed a complex network of massive Bronze Age fortifications in Central Europe, ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a collection of 12,000-year-old perforated stones that might represent one of ...

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

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

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

Long before the advent of cart wheels in the Bronze Age, this early rotational technology may have laid the foundation for ...

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