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To: Elsiejay

The earliest known wheels, according to the article, date from ca. 3500 BC.

The last in-migration from Asia over the Bering land bridge occurred around 9000 BC. Other theories postulate other in-migrations, but these were also from places and times that didn’t have the wheel.

Of course, the Vikings might have brought the wheel ca. 1000 AD, but I haven’t heard of any evidence for that.


21 posted on 03/12/2012 10:12:44 PM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: Erasmus

I remember reading that one of the greatest “inventions” of early man was the wheelbarrow. Somehow it seems intuitive, but someone had to come up with the concept I guess.


33 posted on 03/12/2012 11:38:01 PM PDT by boop (I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
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