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

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

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 ...

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel ...

Now, however, they’ve come to a much more significant conclusion: The pebbles could be spindle whorls, weighted pieces used ...

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

Inheritors such as Lin Xiumei demonstrated cotton spinning techniques, operating the three-spindle spinning wheel as audiences observed this traditional craft up close. Beyond the live ...

Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...

forming the classic wheel-and-axle format that helps the spindle spin faster and longer, Phys.org reported. More importantly, “this ‘wheel and axle’ revolutionized human technological ...

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

Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...

Professor Leore Grosman, one of the study's authors, said: "These perforated stones are actually the first wheels in form and ...