12,000-year-old spindle whorls discovered in Israel suggest early wheel-like technology
The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone in the development of rotational tools.
6,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Artifacts Unlock the Secrets of Writing’s Origins
Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...
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A telehealth friend in the new Congress, and Amazon’s smile on a mental health service
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12,000-Year-Old Stones May Be Earliest Evidence of This Transformative Technology
A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...
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12,000-year-old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...
Science Daily6h
The secrets of fossil teeth revealed by the synchrotron: A long childhood is the prelude to the evolution of a large brain
Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...
These 12,000-year-old stones may finally prove when the wheel was invented, scientists say
Scientists might be closer to learning who invented the wheel after discovering stone spindle stabilizers in Israel that date ...
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12,000-Year-Old Stones May Finally Reveal the Origins of the Wheel
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 12,000-year-old round stones with holes, potentially revealing the wheel's origins.
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1.77 million-year-old human teeth link long childhoods to larger brains
Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...
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12,000-year-old, doughnut-shaped pebbles may be early evidence of the wheel
The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that ...
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Earth
Scientists added a new shade to a graphical representation of global temperature change to keep up with our warming world. In the Highlands of Scotland, a series of last-ditch efforts are being ...