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Location:

  • Poland, Bronocice
  • geo:50.34222,20.349167
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -3500~ / unknown

Class:

  • Find
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=20765

Annotations

Bronocice clay pot was unearthed in Neollithic settlement of Funnelbeaker archaeological culture in Bronocice Village by the the Nidzica River (South Poland ) in 1976 during the archaeological excavation. It contains an image of a four wheeled vehicle with a shaft for a draught animal. Dated to ca 3500 BC by the radiocarbon method. It is the earliest known image of a wheeled vehicle.

  1. Sarah Bockmeyer, The earliest evidence of wheels and wagons in Neolithic Central Europe and the Early Bronze Age of the northern Pontic areas (3500 – 2200 BC) - http://www50.342222, 20.34916.academia.edu/24294429
  2. Xiang Wan, The Bronocice motif and the Chinese character nán 南 ‘South’- http://www.academia.edu/1089737

Nearby

Bronocice

Neolithic settlement.

Bronocice

Neolithic grave

Szczotkowice (1 km)

Bronze Age tumulus.


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2015-06-23. Last update by Elżbieta on 2020-12-13. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/20765 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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