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Runic Spindle Whorl Recently Found in Orkney
Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies, 2020 This article gives an account of a rune-inscribed bone spindle whorl which was found by a member of the public in Orkney in January 2017. The inscription will presumably be designated as OR 24.
Ragnhild Ljosland, Gail Drinkall
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12,000-year-old spindle whorls and the innovation of wheeled rotational technologies. [PDF]
PLoS One‘The wheel and axle’ revolutionized human technological history by transforming linear to rotary motion and causing parts of devices to move. While its ancient origins are commonly associated with the appearance of carts during the Bronze Age, we focus on much earlier wheel-shaped find–an exceptional assemblage of over a hundred perforated pebbles from
Yashuv T, Grosman L.
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Bone spindle whorls in the funeral rite of the Lola Cultural Circle [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографииThis paper presents the analysis of a small number of burials from the Lola Cultural Circle, whose grave goods include bone spindle whorls. It provides a brief overview of trace evidence on the use of such objects that served as flywheels of the rotary ...
Mimokhod R.A., Usachuk A.N.
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L’approche archéologique des vêtements et textiles préhistoriques. Enjeux et limites
Archéopages, 2023 Given the scarcity of textile remains and the lack of other iconographic or textual sources, we have decided to study them in terms of the tools used to make them.
Carole Cheval
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The Earliest Lead Object in the Levant. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In the deepest section of a large complex cave in the northern Negev desert, Israel, a bi-conical lead object was found logged onto a wooden shaft.
Naama Yahalom-Mack +9 more
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Open Archaeology, 2021 After the development of an experimental protocol concerning an enigmatic tool rarely recognized archaeologically and potentially used as a sword beater, that is, blades in bone or wood, we were able to establish certain diagnostic criteria.
Cheval Carole
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Spindle Whorls: their Symbolism in the Villanovan Cemetery of Quattro Fontanili, Veii
Current Swedish Archaeology, 1993 The hypothesis presented in this paper is that the apparently insignificant pottery spindle whorl is a symbol of transformation of death into new life by analogy with mankind's oldest abstract image, the circle, and with the important inventions of ...
Kristina Berggren
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SPINNING THE WHORL OF THE SPINDLE [PDF]
History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2020 AbstractMarsilio Ficino (1433–99) was greatly intrigued by the questions on free will raised by the myth of Er in Plato’s Republic. By focusing on his Argumentum in Platonis Respublicam, this article discusses Ficino’s interpretation of the myth in light of his view on the faculties of the soul—intellect, reason, the imagination, and the vegetative ...
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The excavation of Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand - A report on the first three seasons [PDF]
, 2014 Non Ban Jak is a large, moated site located in the upper Mun Valley, Northeast Thailand. Excavations over three seasons in 2011-4 have revealed a sequence of occupation that covers the final stage of the local Iron Age.
Cameron, Judith +7 more
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Ovruch slate spindle whorls in the Czech Lands
Przegląd Archeologiczny, 2022 The article discusses the state of knowledge and the significance of a special group of early medieval material culture artefacts – namely, spindle whorls made of Ovruch pyrophyllite slate originating from the territory of present-day Ukraine. Thousands of these artefacts, interesting not only for their specific, usually reddish color, but also for ...
Pavel Kouřil, Antonín Přichystal
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