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

Carole Cheval, an archaeologist at Côte d’Azur University in Nice, France, tells New Scientist that the study should have ...

We might be familiar with shearing the sheep, spinning the wool into yarn, or knitting and weaving ... and of course it requires either an expensive tool, or one you build on your own.

Some 12,000-year-old stones have been discovered, which may be the oldest example of wheel-like tools. The spindle whorls ...