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The artefacts, unearthed over decades at Nahal Ein-Gev II in the Jordan Valley, include 113 perforated stones.

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

Spindle whorls, round, weighted objects that are attached to a spindle stick, form a kind of wheel-and-axle-like device to be useful for the spindle and its rotation more fast and long, making easy it ...

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 wheel, archaeologists largely agree, was invented around 6,000 years ago somewhere in Mesopotamia. Together with the axle it revolutionized human technological history and in time led to the ...

Due to this structure and composition, the authors deduce that the stones were likely used as spindle whorls - a hypothesis also supported by successfully spinning flax using replicas of the stones.

The researchers suspect these pebbles were used as spindle whorls for making cloth, and they reinforced this theory by successfully using replicas of the pebbles to spin flax. The researchers say ...

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into yarn, predating previously known textile tools by 4,000 years The post 12,000 ...

This tool was crucial for spinning fibers like wool or flax into yarn, supporting the creation of fabrics. The researchers, led by Talia Yashuv and Leore Grosman from the Hebrew University of ...