Re-imagining the Wheel Due to their size and the presence of whorls, the pebbles were likely used as an early version of a spinning wheel to gather up fibers like wool or flax and transform it into ...

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Due to their size and the presence of whorls, the pebbles were likely used as an early version of a spinning wheel to gather ...

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 ...

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 ...

form a “wheel-and-axle-like device to help the spindle rotate faster and longer, enabling it to efficiently gather up fibers such as wool or flax and spin them into yarn,” the university said.

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

Serving as a flywheel at the bottom of a spindle, whorls allowed people to efficiently spin natural fibres into yarns and thread ... to find the first vehicle wheels 6000 years ago, it’s not ...

form a similar wheel-and-axle-like device to help the spindle rotate faster and longer, enabling it to efficiently gather up fibers such as wool or flax and spin them into yarn. The stones studied ...