Archaeologists Discover Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Stones That Could Be the World’s Oldest Wheel Technology
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 ...
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3,800-Year-Old Biblical Artifact Found in Israel’s ‘Cave of Skulls’
Long ago, the colors of fabrics were more than just fashion statements. They were a nonverbal form of communication that ...
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12,000-year-old discovery forces experts to spin new story about wheel’s origins
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 ...
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Archaeologists say 12,000-year-old Middle East stones may be earliest known wheel technology
The perforated pebbles from an archaeological dig in northern Israel are likely to be spindle whorls, disc-shaped objects ...
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12,000-year-old Stone Age site in Israel reveals first evidence of wheel technology
Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...