Bronocice pot.

Have you posted to Lucyna on the Bronocice pot?  Her date of 3400BC (2775+-50) was from a published article by Janusz Kruk and S. Milisauskas entitled _Rise and fall of neolithic Societies_ (1999)

 

I remember reading a similarly sensational date. This would put it in the right place at the right time for the start of the Globular Amphora culture (3400-2800), though its attributed to TRB (Trichterbecher, funnel beaker) culture (4500-2700), which brackets it.

 

This really is one of the very oldest depictions of a wheeled vehicle anywhere. The great question is not so much who made the pot, as who made the wagon that served as the model. The Yamna culture (3600-2200) represents the standard model's PIE homeland. They rode horses and had fine steppe-worthy vehicles.  My sources hint that the Baden culture (3600-2800), particularly Hungary, might be the place we should look.

 

Mark.