--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> 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! Terms of Service.
Thanks Piotr. The picture looks stunning with the title: At Bronocice
a pot ornamented with a four wheel cart motif has been discovered.
This vessel, belonging to the Funnel Beaker culture,
is the oldest evidens for wagon use.
The cart looks like a sledge on four wheels. This is also similar to
the early cuneiform used to connote such a sledge. On what basis has
this been adjudged to be a 'wagon' or a 'cart'? Any collateral
evidence from the diggings?
Scroll down and see the signs at:
http://sarasvati.simplenet.com/ratha3.htm For the picture depicting
the signs:
http://sarasvati.simplenet.com/RATHA001.jpg
"LATE 4th MILLENNIUM BC The first evidence for the use of wheeled
vehicles comes fromthe site of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia. It
consists of simple pictographic signs on inscribed clay tablets found
in Uruk level IVa (ca 3200-3100 BC). (pp. 13-14)" cf. M.A. Littauer
and J.H. Crouwel, 1979, Wheeled Vehicles and Ridden Animals in the
Ancient Near East, Leidenj, E.J. Brill.
Have the signs on the pot been fully deciphered? Quite a few signs
look similar to early cuneiform with a lot of short linear strokes
apparently indicating some sort of counting -- may be count
of 'products' loaded on the sledge?