The invention of the wheel is a major breakthrough in human history. But now, the records may have to be rewritten - as the ...
The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone ...
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 ...
Long before the advent of cart wheels in the Bronze Age, this early rotational technology may have laid the foundation for ...
After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...
The Treasure of Villena, discovered in the Valencia region of Spain in, is considered one of the most important collections ...
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of ...
Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...
This era marked the transition to an agricultural lifestyle before the Neolithic period, long before the cart wheels of the ...
A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a collection of 12,000-year-old perforated stones that might represent one of ...