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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 ...
Talia Yashuv, Leore Grosman
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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
Pavel Kouřil, Antonín Přichystal
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Virtual Archaeology Review, 2010 A long-term systematic international excavation project has attested the existence of a wide range of past human activities in the emporion Pistiros. An assemblage of artefacts indicating the conduct of different economic activities on the site includes ...
Malgorzata Grzybalska
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The World on a Whorl: Considerations on Aztec Spindle Whorl Iconography
Zea Books, 2017 An unpublished collection of Aztec (Late Postclassic central Mexico, ca. 1400-1520) spindle whorls (totaling 33 items) with rich iconographic embellishment is the focus of this paper, which will discuss a set of recurring iconographic themes, such as the ’sun disk’, ’eagles’, ’jade disks or chalchihuites’ and ’cloud-scrolls’, on the ...
Jesper Nielsen
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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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Ethnobiology Letters, 2016 Gurukly Depe is an archaeological site located in the Serakhs oasis in southeast Turkmenistan, excavated since 2010 by the Polish-Turkmen archaeological mission directed by Professor Barbara Kaim from the University of Warsaw.
Dominika Maja Kossowska-Janik
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EXARC Journal, 2019 This contribution focuses on residues developing on spindle-whorls during spinning. Such a kind of tools is largely diffused in archaeological contexts where spindle-whorls were used in textile activities or deposited in burials as grave goods.
Vanessa Forte +3 more
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Solar disks and solar cycles: spindle whorls and the dawn of solar art in postclassic Mexico [PDF]
, 2007 Sun disks are a common motif in spindle whorl decorations at Xaltocan, Mexico. These and other forms of symbolism on domestic artifacts suggest that women participated in the solar cosmologies of Postclassic Central Mexico.
Elisabeth Brumfiel
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The textile industry at Krševica (Southeast Serbia) in the fourth-third centuries B.C. [PDF]
Starinar, 2006 The site of Kale at Krševica, with significant remains of a settlement dating to the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods, has yielded, in addition to other finds, more than a thousand loom weights, spindle whorls and spools of which 1038 pieces ...
Popović Petar, Vranić Ivan
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Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma of Foot Masquerading Squamous Cell Carcinoma [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Synovial sarcoma being a rare sarcoma typically arises near articular surface most commonly around knee joint. Hereby, a case report of a 38-year-old male with complaint of cauliflower-like proliferative growth on the plantar aspect of left foot.
Sakthi Kannamma +2 more
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