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

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel ...

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 ...

Research published in PLOS ONE lays out a discovery that explores the history of the wheel. Researchers suggest that the12,000-year-old stones out of Israel could be examples of spindle whorls.

They’re literally reinventing the wheel. Scientists might be closer to learning who invented the wheel after discovering stone spindle stabilizers in Israel that date back 12,000 years.