The potter's wheel was widely used by the beginning of the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, about 2400 BCE. Pottery cannot be made by hand modeling or coiling without the potter either turning the ...

The origins of the wheel remain one of history's greatest mysteries, obscured by fragmented evidence and centuries of speculation. While its invention revolutionized transportation, trade, and ...

Uruk, 5,500 years ago. The Sumerian city is a splendid sight, the largest and richest human settlement the world has ever seen. And it is distinctively urban, with tens of thousands of inhabitants ...

The earliest known fired ceramic objects are clay figurines dating to roughly 24,000 BCE found in large numbers in Central Europe. In the Americas, ceramic production can be dated to 2500 BCE. The ...

Experimental filmmaker Richard Tuohy provides a glimpse of the world defined by the mechanical art of film On the Invention of the Wheel becomes a metaphor for the ...

Ancient Native Americans probably used makeshift “transport technology” to drag their possessions from place to place more than 20,000 years ago, a new study finds — and the evidence of the ...