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

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 ...

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...

Archaeologists uncover doughnut-shaped pebbles in Israel, revealing possible use as early rotational tools in textile ...

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.

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

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...

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

form a similar wheel-and-axle-like device to help the spindle rotate faster and longer, enabling it to efficiently gather up fibers such as wool or flax and spin them into yarn. The stones studied ...

which reminded him of the hole in a spindle whorl, such as his ancestors and relatives today use to spin wool for weaving. The patterns of the work are rendered in the ceiling around the oculus ...

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