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These 12,000 Natufian artifacts may be very early evidence of wheel-like technologyas she sees these spindle whorls as part of a larger lineage of rotational tools that predate the wheel itself. “What we see ...
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12,000-year-old spindle whorls discovered in Israel suggest early wheel-like technologySpindle whorls form a device similar to the wheel and axle to help the spindle ... researchers studying ancient whorls would be skilled in spinning themselves, which the study authors were not.
If you spin with a distaff of the type shown here, you can walk and spin (with a spindle) at the same time. Other types of distaffs are attached to stools on which the spinsters sit, or to the ...
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