08-28-2006, 09:36 PM
I was watching a history show today and they talked a little bit about the invention of the wheel. I never gave the wheel much thought until the show brought it up. According to most authorities, the wheel-and-axle combination originated in ancient Mesopotamia during the 5th millennium BC, probably originally in the function of potter's wheels. Paleoanthropologists now date the emergence of anatomically modern humans to ca. 150,000 years ago, 143,000 of those years were "wheel-less".
I found that hard to believe that it took humans 143,000 years to invent the wheel. Does anyone know info that is different? It seems like the Atlantians would have had the wheel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel
I found that hard to believe that it took humans 143,000 years to invent the wheel. Does anyone know info that is different? It seems like the Atlantians would have had the wheel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel