An analysis of ancient residues left on a vase depicting the Egyptian deity Bes reveals it may have been used to reenact a ...
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 ...
These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.