Archaeology Was it a stone tool or just a rock? ... 12,000-year-old, doughnut-shaped pebbles may be early evidence of the wheel. News. By Owen Jarus published 13 November 2024 ...

Humans 12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like tools. Dozens of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be early examples of spindle whorls, a rotating tool ...

New research on 12,000-year-old pebbles from the Israeli desert suggests the idea for the wheel may have come ... “A very early example of humans using rotation with a wheel-shaped tool, ...

Humans Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools. Stone tools discovered in Kenya are the oldest Oldowan-type implements found, dating back at least 2.6 million years, and ...

These Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Pebbles May Be Early Evidence of Wheel-Like Tools, ... “They went back to something else, and we don’t see the same tool for another 4,000 years.

The pebbles were found in previous excavations at a site archaeologists call "Nahal Ein Gev II." It is located in northern Israel, about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) east of the Sea of Galilee.