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 ...

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 ...

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

These are believed to be early spindle whorls — small, weighted discs used to spin fibers into yarn more efficiently. This ...

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

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 ...

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

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...

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