date of wheeled vehicles

[Robert Drews]

It appears now that the wheeled vehicle was invented ca. 3500 BC, and
almost immediately established itself over a huge area, from Uruk to
Jutland.  Good article by Jan Bakker, Janusz Kruk et al., "The Earliest
Evidence of Wheeled Vehicles in Europe and the Near East," in the last
fascicle of Antiquity (Antiquity 73 [1999], pp. 778-790).

Robert Drews
(for spring of 2000)
Department of Classical Studies
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA  23173
Telephone: (804) 289:8421
e-mail address: rdrews at richmond.edu