Uh...no.
Wheels existed in the subcontinent of India long before 3500 bc.
Archaeology just ignores India. Indian archaeologists insist that humans go back at least a million years. This is not popular with western academics who have their “professional reputations” to protect.
“Archaeology just ignores India. Indian archaeologists insist that humans go back at least a million years.”
I’m not sure what you’re driving at here (hey, no pun intended!)
Could you elucidate a little more?
How long do “western” scientists say humans go back, for one thing?
(I know they are mostly atheistic communists, I know that part already!)
Indian archaeologists don’t all insist that, just the viciously nationalistic ones do. They also ridiculously claim that there was never an Aryan migration into India, even though the vintage literature says so, and records things that have been documented only in ancient sites in Central Asia. The same jokers have never shown even one site that exceeds 5K or 6K, other than run of the mill Neolithic sites, and even the earliest cities are mostly nameless, having not survived either in local tradition (because the population isn’t descended from the earlier occupants) or in the ancient literature.
There are small pyramid sites in Greece that are of early classical times, but some nutjobs insist on the entirely baseless claim that they are 20,000 years old.
For most of the past two million years, the continental shelf has been exposed during glaciation, while the interiors have been covered with ice. Hence, much if not most of what our ancestors did and where they lived is covered by water now.
This topic has generated the level of discussion I’d hoped it would; clearly the wheel is so obvious that it was independently invented a number of times, and used where needed and when appropriate. And sometimes lost or discarded, or declining into trivial uses.
Do you have some links on this subject?
I’ve not paid much attention to these sometimes hyperbolic claims, I admit. They smack a little of Afro-centric (blacks invented everything!) and Russian commie (Russians invented everything!) “history” to me.
But I’m always willing to be convinced otherwise and the enthusiasm and axe to grind of some of the proponents does not invalidate evidence if it exists.
And I agree Indian history, for a variety of reasons, has been slighted in the standard histories.