In doing so, they proved that these rolling rocks were around six millennia older than the current so-called flagship examples of the wheel — a 5,500-year-old potter’s wheel found in Mesopotamia.

Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Israel have identified what may be one of the earliest examples of wheel-like technology ever found: several dozen 12,000-year-old, doughnut-shaped pebbles ...

It’s rare, but technicians have been struck by weights flying off the wheel. Make sure your techs wear proper PPE just in case. Now, let’s talk about the fun part – removing old wheel weights. And by ...

12,000-year-old perforated stones found over years of ... device," according to newly published research in PLOS ONE. The wheel-shaped stones were found at Nahal Ein-Gev II in the Jordan Valley ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a ...

JERUSALEM — 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 ...

Some 12,000-year-old stones have been discovered, which may be the oldest example of wheel-like tools. The spindle whorls would feature in a wheel and axle arrangement to allow the spinning of fibers ...