These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan Valley were likely used to spin fibers into yarn, a discovery that pushes back the use of the technique by thousands of years,

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.

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 study published November 13,

Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version of a spinning wheel.