0 a circular pattern of lines, with the smallest circle in the middle, surrounded by other circles, each one wider and larger than the previous one
Thus, they may have been used to spin the same types of material, like cotton, as the bead-shaped whorls, although, perhaps, with a looser twist.
Antennal setae are arranged in whorls, and are especially conspicuous in males.
The weight, height, inner-hole diameter, and total diameter of each spindle whorl were measured.
Based on the unfinished margins of some of the irregular beads, these were made from the whorl of marine shells.
Alternatively, these whorls may not represent a spinning industry at all, but rather areas where weavers consumed surplus thread.
Associated with the bones discovered at the bottom of the shaft was an offering of four pottery vessels and a spindle whorl.
Only six spindle whorls were recovered form fill or surface contexts (two were found on the surface, and four came from structural fill).
Other whorls were modeled from clay to the desired form and often slipped.
