These 12,000-year-old stones may finally prove when the wheel was invented, scientists say
They’re literally reinventing the wheel. Scientists might be closer to learning who invented the wheel after discovering ...
Archaeologists discover 12,000-year-old pebbles that could provide new insights about the wheel
Researchers gave a detailed look into perforated stones collected out of excavations in Israel, and came to the conclusion ...
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The First Spinner
Melondy Phillips Staff Writer Going to the store to buy new clothes or to purchase fabric for sewing projects is second ...
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12,000-year-old discovery forces experts to spin new story about wheel’s origins
While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel ...
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These 12,000-year-old Natufian artifacts may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
These are believed to be early spindle whorls — small, weighted discs used to spin fibers into yarn more efficiently. This ...
To invent the wheel, did people first have to invent the spindle?
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...