These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
A rare glimpse into the Natufian culture and the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural one.
The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.
Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...
The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone in the development of rotational tools.
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