The potter's wheel was widely used by the beginning of the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, about 2400 BCE. Pottery cannot be made by hand modeling or coiling without the potter either turning the ...

Scientists have stumbled upon a set of weird 12,000-year-old doughnut shaped tools at a dig-site in Northern Israel, shedding light on when the first set of wheels were first invented. The ...

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