New York Post15d
These 12,000-year-old stones may finally prove when the wheel was invented, scientists say
Talia Yashuv / SWNS The hundred or so mostly limestone pebbles were unearthed at the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site, per the study. They were perforated in the middle, leading scientists to believe ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN15d
These Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Pebbles May Be Early Evidence of Wheel-Like Tools, Archaeologists Say
Using highly detailed 3D models of the 113 pebbles, the archaeologists noted that the mostly limestone artifacts were roughly ...
Are THESE the world’s first wheels? Weird 12,000-year-old stone ‘doughnuts’ could prove when pivotal invention was made
A NEW discovery could shed light on when the first set of wheels were first invented. Scientists have discovered a set of ...
IFLScience17d
12,000-Year-Old Spinning Pebbles May Have Set Humanity’s Wheels In Motion
After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...
EurekAlert!17d
12,000-year old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...
Phys.org17d
12,000-year old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
the authors describe more than a hundred of the mostly-limestone pebbles, which feature a circular shape perforated by a central hole. Due to this structure and composition, the authors of the new ...
Science Daily17d
12,000-year-old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
the authors describe more than a hundred of the mostly-limestone pebbles, which feature a circular shape perforated by a central hole. Due to this structure and composition, the authors of the new ...