In a bid to curb climate impacts and improve traceability, Italian suppliers are trying to nearshore their raw materials. How ...

Round, weighted objects that are attached to a spindle stick, spindle whorls form a similar wheel-and-axle-like device to ...

Archaeologists study 12,000-year-old pebbles with central holes Pebbles may represent early rotational tool, aiding textile ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a collection of 12,000-year-old perforated stones that might represent one of ...

The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone ...

Due to this structure and composition, the authors deduce that the stones were likely used as spindle whorls - a hypothesis also supported by successfully spinning flax using replicas of the stones.

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

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

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...

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

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

When connected, they form a rudimentary wheel-and-axle mechanism that can spin fibers like wool or flax into yarn more ...