From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 665
Date: 1999-12-22
----- Original Message -----From: Mark OdegardSent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 7:42 PMSubject: [cybalist] Bronocice pot.Gerry Reinhart-Waller writes to PiotrHave 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.
It's THE very oldest one known so far rather than 'one of'. It's some two hundred years older than the Uruk wagon pictograms. Only the Flintbeck cart ruts are still older.I've just bought the book by Kruk and Milisauskas. It's in Polish but there is an English summary of all the chapters. The book is really fascinating. It is not about the Neolithic in general but about the cultures of Central Europe, from Linear Pottery to Corded Ware. It covers some of the topics we've discussed, such as Funnel Beaker wheeled vehicles and the Neolithic salt industry.Piotr