The wooden wheel belonged to a prehistoric two-wheel cart, made primarily of two planks of wood held together with four cross braces.
Radiocarbon dating was used to determine the wheel’s age, which is somewhere between 5,100 and 5,350 years old.
Without wheels, there would be no cars, bikes or cogs for gears in machines. Water wheels to irrigate crops and grind gains, or spinning wheels used to spin thread or yarn from raw fibre, would not have been invented.
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| The Oldest Wheel Ever Found at Ljubljana Marsh some 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, in 2002. |
The wheel is held at The Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Slovenia