Hi Gerry: Can you give us more data on the Bronocice find and dating?
I assume we are talking the TRB pot with wagon motiffs? How does it
compare to the Flintbek cart ruts (below a TRB megal.tomb, I believe?
(I understand a number of context C-14s and other dating techniques have
been applied to the Bronocice find and site?) I regret that I am
dependent on the web for breaking stuff, and have been for a few years.
I am also trying to follow N. Syrian developments which seem to take the
war chariot out of Sumerian context.
Hi Rex,
Just got back in. About the finds at Bronocice, I have discovered the
following information:
http://www.le.ac.uk/archaeology/teach/ar202/lec2_05.html
Another link presenting certain changes in agricultural practice that
developed in the Fertile Crescent in the 6th-5th millennium BC and then
manifested itself in Central and Northern Europe by the 4th-3rd
millennium BC.
http://www.comp-archaeology.org/abstractsweb_The
earliest_evidence_of_wh.htm
A description of the earliest evidence of wheeled transport in Europe
and the Near East. Aa wheeled model from the late Uruk site Jabel Aruda
dates 4500-4400 bp.
A cart-rut below a TRB megalithic tomb at Flintbek (Germany) is dated at
4800-4700 bp.
A TRB pot with wagon motifs from Bronocice (Poland) is dated 4800-4700
bp.
Hope this information is helpful. Please let me know if any of the
links don't open. I've been typing this in haste.