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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...