Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9d
These Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Pebbles May Be Early Evidence of Wheel-Like Tools, Archaeologists Say
tells New Scientist that the study should have looked for microscopic traces of the friction caused by yarn on the pebbles.
12,000-year-old spinning machine uncovered in northern Israel
A 12,000-year-old tool used to spin fibers into yarn has been identified in an archaeological dig in northern Israel, ...
Hackaday5y
Hand-Made Drum Carder Gets Wool Ready For Spinning
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.
EurekAlert!12d
12,000-year-old spindle whorls uncovered in the Jordan Valley
A new study by researchers from Hebrew University has identified 12,000 years old spindle whorls — early tools used to spin ...
The Times of Israel on MSN11d
12,000-year-old Stone Age site in Israel reveals first evidence of wheel technology
Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...
Knowridge10d
12,000-year-old stones could be ancient tools leading to wheel technology
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a collection of 12,000-year-old perforated stones that might represent one of ...
IFLScience11d
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 ...