Re: [tied] Re: Got wheels?

I posted the JPG as an attachment. If you don't see it in your mail browser, here's where I took it from:

http://www.archeo.pan.krakow.pl/STUDIES.htm

Piggott wrote what he wrote before reliable datings of the Bronocice pot were available. Since 1983 some new evidence has accumulated

Piotr

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From: S.Kalyanaraman

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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 1:08 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Got wheels?

--- 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.

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