The potter's wheel was widely used by the beginning of the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, about 2400 BCE. Pottery cannot be made by hand modeling or coiling without the potter either turning the ...

The potter's wheel film shows the hands of Georges Aubertin as he throws a pot, accompanied by music. It was typical, in that it was mildly engaging, but not so much that the viewer would miss ...

A NEW discovery could shed light on when the first set of wheels were first invented. Scientists have discovered a set of ...

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

They’re literally reinventing the wheel. Scientists might be closer to learning who invented the wheel after discovering ...

ADRIAN — Thanks to a $15,000 donation from the Maurice and Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation, 10 new potter’s wheels are in the hands of Adrian College students at the studio art program.

Do you remember when you first tried your skills in using the potter’s wheel? My first attempt was made secretly. I don’t know why I thought that people in my workplace at that time would ...

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

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that ...

While spindle whorls demonstrate an early form of “wheel and axle” technology, it would take another 4,000 years before this ...

The discovery has been published in the recent study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Talia Yashuv and Leore Grosman of ...