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12,000-year-old discovery forces experts to spin new story about wheel’s origins
While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel ...
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Pebbles Push Back the Invention of the Wheel to About 12,000 Years Ago
Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...
Are THESE the world’s first wheels? Weird 12,000-year-old stone ‘doughnuts’ could prove when pivotal invention was made
A NEW discovery could shed light on when the first set of wheels were first invented. Scientists have discovered a set of ...
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12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like tech
The spindle whorls would feature in a wheel and axle arrangement to allow the spinning of fibers into yarn. The post ...
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12,000-Year-Old Spinning Pebbles May Have Set Humanity’s Wheels In Motion
After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...
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These 12,000-year-old Natufian artifacts may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.