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These 12,000-year-old stones may finally prove when the wheel was invented, scientists say
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.
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12,000-year old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
Due to this structure and composition, the authors of the new paper deduce that the stones were likely used as spindle whorls—a hypothesis also supported by successfully spinning flax using ...