Melondy Phillips Staff Writer Going to the store to buy new clothes or to purchase fabric for sewing projects is second ...

Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...

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

Researchers gave a detailed look into perforated stones collected out of excavations in Israel, and came to the conclusion ...

These are believed to be early spindle whorls — small, weighted discs used to spin fibers into yarn more efficiently. This ...

Over 100 perforated pebbles from a site near the Sea of Galilee showcase an early instance of the tech that reshaped humanity.

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

The physics of spinning objects may have seeded concepts ... IMHo, a bow drill bears more resemblance to a wheel than spindle whorls. Same idea of a flywheel, but uses a bearing.

The East China Normal University recently held the opening ceremony of a cultural celebration highlighting the innovative ...

Archaeologists have found a collection of 12,000-year-old stones in the Middle East which may be the earliest known example ...

(a) Manual thigh-spinning [64]; (b) Spindle-and-whorl “supported spinning” [68]; (c ... (Credit: Yashuv, Grosman, 2024, PLOS ONE) Perforated pebbles discovered in Israel may roll back the time of the ...

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.