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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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Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2018 Spindle whorls are one of the most durable traces of the textile craft in the archaeological record. They can be found in copious quantities and diverse types in forts and extramural settlements on the Romano British northern frontier.
Marta Alberti
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The Contribution of Experimental Archaeology in Addressing the Analysis of Residues on Spindle-Whorls [PDF]
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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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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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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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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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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Surgical Treatment of Hemangiopericytoma in the Lip of a Filly: A Clinical Report [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery, 2017 Case Description: A 1.5-year-old filly weighing approximately 150 kg was presented to the clinic for a dense tumor-like mass on his lower lip. Clinical Findings: According to physical examinations, it was observed that the filly had a solitary, well ...
Ghasem Farjanikish +3 more
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The Early and Middle Bronze Age Textile Tools from the Aeolian Islands (Italy)
Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2018 The Aeolian ceramic textile tools dated to the advanced Early and Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600-1250 BC) comprise the only evidence for textile manufacture and are a unique source of information about the technology of textile production used in the Early ...
Katarzyna Żebrowska
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