Posted on 08/16/2022 4:25:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
World's oldest wagons Lchashen Armenia lake Sevan – 4,000 years oldOver a dozen rich burials have been excavated in Armenia. The most spectacular were those excavated at Lchashen on the borders of Lake Sevan where a more than a dozen almost complete four-wheeled and two wheeled wagons, as well as two wheeled chariots with spoked wheels were uncovered. Two of these wagons form a spectacular display in the National Museum in Armenia. The four solid wheels are made from three planks of oak, while the interior is covered by a covering of withies. In his chronology (Timeline of the Development of the Horse, 2007) Beverley Davis describes these wagons as follows: "Primitive wagons dating from this time (2000 BCE) have been found in excellent condition in Armenia. These are the oldest known wagons in the world." The wagons have also been included in Prof Stuart Piggott's classic book "The Earliest Wheeled Transport".
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This may have been posted before. I got sucked into FF'ing through one of the most horrible YT clickbait vids I've ever experienced to find enough information to look this up.
https://i.redd.it/4yskoj5fsg571.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/o0wa7z/one_of_the_oldest_wagons_in_the_world_found_near/
Another great post, Civ.
Thanks!
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Thanks for posting this!
My pleasure.
Where is the motor?.............
That wine making facility looks suspiciously like the sky observatory. Kinda like Carvel’s whale cake was the same mold ad the Father’s Day tie cake...
You’re the motor! Get pullin’! And from time to time, shout, “bring out your dead!”
Some of the best brandy comes from Armenia.
Re: 4,000 years old
Kind of amazing that 3,500 years later, the indigenous people of North and South America still had not discovered the wheel or developed a common form of math and written language.
Yeah.
In North America with no draft animals larger than a dog why have a wheel.
In South America with no draft animal larger than a llama coupled with the Andean terrain again why have a wheel.
Though the concept was there. There were Aztec, Mayan & I believe Incan children's toys with wheels.
:^)
Winery:
https://www.peopleofar.com/wp-content/uploads/oldest-wine-making-press-armenia.jpg
Observatory:
https://www.peopleofar.com/wp-content/uploads/carahunge-zorats-karer.jpg
I have read that, too.
However, that means that humans were the draft animals for roughly 200,000 years.
No one figured out that one worker could transport ten times as much wood or stone, or migrate all his tools and household goods to a new territory, with a pulled wagon?
That sounds really strange.
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