The invention of the wheel has long been considered an important milestone in human history. However, records may need to be revised as the earliest evidence of wheel use has been pushed back 6,000 years. The first examples of the wheel date back to around 4000 BC. in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), when the wheel shape was used for pottery. About 500 years later, during the Bronze Age, the first evidence of the use of wheeled vehicles was recorded. However, a collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may represent a major new milestone in the development of rotary tools, including wheels, according to experts. Over a hundred pebbles, mostly of limestone, were discovered at the Nahal-Ein Gev II excavation site, bearing a circular shape with a central hole. According to the Daily Mail, these pebbles date back to around 12,000 years ago. Researchers believe that these pebbles were probably used as round, heavy objects, placed on a shaft, allowing […]
Source: News Beast
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