Bronocice pot

Gerry Reinhart-Waller writes to Piotr

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)


Mark: 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.

Gerry: Then I'll begin looking into the Baden culture (the Yamna
culture as well). Do you have any further references? What do you
think the vehicle transported?

Gerry