John:
> the Sumerians (who invented writing, historical record keeping, >temple
>building, the wheel, irrigation etc etc)
Mark:
>The wheel? The wheel is nowhere attested until after 4000 BCE. After >4000
>BCE it seems to be everywhere. The Brononice pot is apparently >the
>earliest representation ***ANYWHERE*** of a wheeled vehicle.
Thanks, Mark. I'd like to also add that just because Sumerians have
supposedly native names for planets doesn't necessarily mean that they were
the first to create the cosmo-mythological associations. The Japanese have
"Japanese" terms for the days of the week as well as the planets. Were they
the originators of the days of the week? The Chinese perhaps? I'll just let
John sit on that one for a while and rotate like a wheel.
- gLeN
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