--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> As for first wheeled vehicles and their representations, the record
holder at the moment is a vessel decorated with wagon motifs from a
Funnel Beaker settlement at Bronocice in southern Poland (see the
enclosed JPG file, where one of the three preserved wagon
representations is well visible). On the basis of animal bones found
with the vessel it has been radiocarbon-dated at 3635-3370 BC.
Where is the JPG file?
"Whatever the role of particular peoples in the origin of the spoked-
wheeled, horse-drawn chariot, there appears to be no cogent
archaeological or linguistic arguments against its development in the
Near East itself'..." (Stuart Piggott, 1983, The Earliest Wheeled
Transport from the Atlantic coast to the Caspian Sea, Ithaca, Cornell
University Press, pp.64, 103).
It may be helpful to get info. on sledge, boat-, wagon-related terms
in Sumerian.