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.

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 ...

To operate this wet spinning frame the workers would go barefoot. The machine turned flax fibres into usable yarn. The yarn produced would then be exported all round the world.