Pre-inventing the wheel: 12,000-year-old pebbles an early sign of spinning technology
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Pre-inventing the wheel: 12,000-year-old pebbles an early sign of spinning technology 12,000-year-old pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be tools that were a precursor to the invention of the wheel, according to international researchers. The team studied a collection of over
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Original Title: Pre-inventing the wheel: 12,000-year-old pebbles an early sign of spinning technology | Researchers suspect the donut shaped pebbles were used as spindle whorls for making cloth, and may have paved the way for later rotating technologies such as the potter’s wheel and the cart wheel.