These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.
The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.
Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...
Researchers have analyzed a collection of donut-shaped, perforated stones an archaeological site dating back about 12,000 ...
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...
The invention of the wheel is a major breakthrough in human history. But now, the records may have to be rewritten - as the ...
After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...
Three researchers from the University of Bologna contributed to this longstanding debate in the latest issue of Antiquity, ...
A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...
Join Us LOS ANGELES — Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology ... Following the shape of the tree rings, the chronology starts ...
The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...
A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...
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