Everything about The Bronocice Pot totally explained
The
Bronocice pot is a
ceramic vase incised with the earliest known image of what may be a
wheeled vehicle. It was dated by the
radiocarbon method to 3635-3370 BC and is attributed to the
Funnelbeaker archaeological culture. Today it's housed in the Archaeological Museum in
Kraków,
Poland.
Discovery
The pot was discovered in
1976 during the archaeological
excavation of a large
Neolithic settlement in Bronocice by the Nidzica River, ca. 50 km to north east of Kraków. The excavations were carried out between
1974 and
1980 by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
State University of New York at Buffalo (
USA).
Inscription
The
ornament on the pot symbolically depicts key elements of the
prehistoric human environment. The most important component of the decoration are five rudimentary representations of what seems to be a
wagon. They represent a vehicle with a shaft for a draught animal, and four wheels. The lines connecting them probably represent
axles. The circle in the middle possibly symbolizes a container for
harvest. Other images on the pot include a tree, a river and what may be fields intersected by roads/ditches or the layout of a
village.
Historical implications
The image on the pot is the oldest known representation of a wheeled vehicle in the world. It implies the existence of wagons in Central Europe as early as in the 4th millennium BC. They were presumably drawn by
aurochs whose remains were found with the pot. Their horns were worn out as if tied with a rope, possibly a result of using a kind of yoke.
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