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 ...
Are THESE the world’s first wheels? Weird 12,000-year-old stone ‘doughnuts’ could ...
A NEW discovery could shed light on when the first set of wheels were first invented. Scientists have discovered a set of ...
earth11 天
Who invented the wheel? It all started with stones
Archaeological findings in Israel push the wheel's origins back to 12,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...
Discover Magazine on MSN13 天
Pebbles Push Back the Invention of the Wheel to About 12,000 Years Ago
Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...
Greek Reporter12 天
12,000-Year-Old Stones May Finally Reveal the Origins of the Wheel
While spindle whorls demonstrate an early form of “wheel and axle” technology, it would take another 4,000 years before this ...
New Scientist3 年
When was the wheel invented?
The Sumerian city is a splendid sight ... so obviously useful and so ripe for invention. Potter’s wheels were an ancient technology by this time. The city had streets that were flat and smooth ...
Scientists May Have Finally Found the Origin of One of History’s Most Important Inventions
but instead a potter’s wheel constructed in Mesopotamia (likely by the Sumerians) around 4000 BCE. Yet another theory points ...
BBC8 年
KS1 / KS2 PSHE: Proud to be a potter
NARRATOR:'Like this potter's wheel that was invented over six thousand years ago. In Ancient Sumer.' NARRATOR:'The job remained the same until a few hundred years ago NARRATOR:'when machinery once ...