Common thread connects spindles and wheels. People have been spinning plant fibers, like flax, into thread for (at least) tens of thousands of years; the first people to do this that we know of ...

This statement comes from several letters written by the donor of this object: "My great grandfather, Israel Beach, built his home at Stratford, Conn. in 1735. Some 30 years ago there was given me by ...

JERUSALEM — While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of ...

Since 1972, archaeologists have uncovered 113 of these punctured artifacts at the Nahal Ein Gev II site, which may have been used for spinning threads. Spindle whorls are round, weighted objects ...

12,000-Year-Old Spinning Pebbles May Have Set ... the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle whorls that could be used ... wheel, spindle, spinning, ancient ancestors ...

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.

With a regular spinning wheel, you had to hold one end of the roving and carefully draw it farther from the spindle as you spun the wheel. The spinning jenny helped mechanize that part of the process.

Humans 12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like tools. Dozens of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be early examples of spindle whorls, a rotating tool ...