Re: [tied] Oldest Wheel News

--- x99lynx@... wrote:

> World's Oldest Wheel Found?
> March 10, 2003 By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
> A 5,100- to 5,350-year-old wooden wheel recently was
> found in Slovenia buried
> within an ancient marsh, according to a press
> release issued earlier this
> month by the Slovenian news agency STA.

*****GK: So 3350/3100 BCE*****

> The team of archaeologists who found the wheel
> claims it is 100 years older
> than the world's current tied record-holders, both
> said to be from Europe.

*****GK: ACTUAL wheels? I thought (correct me if
necessary) that these two instances were (1) a
preserved groove in the ground somewhere in Germany;
and (2) the depiction on the Bronocice pot. And I
thought there were earlier depictions of a wheel in
Asia Minor.******

> "The wheel is surprisingly technologically advanced,
> much more so than the
> later models found in Switzerland and Germany," said
> Anton Veluscek, an
> archaeologist from the Archaeological Institute at
> the Slovenian Academy of
> Arts and Sciences who was a member of the team that
> found the wheel.

*****GK: Can we at least say that it is the earliest
EXTANT actual wheel anywhere?******

>

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