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

Melondy Phillips Staff Writer Going to the store to buy new clothes or to purchase fabric for sewing projects is second ...

After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into yarn, predating previously known textile tools by 4,000 years The post 12,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The origin of history goes back to the first inventions. Among them, the wheel was the key for mankind to continue its ...

They say the first storyteller lived between 200,000 and 700,000 years ago among the species of human known as homo heidelbergensis. A resourceful and social lot, the homo heidelbergensis people ...