5,000 year old toy wagon found in Turkey

[Angela]

See:
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6025-171017-bronze-age-toys


Does this make it the oldest toy wagon, or the oldest representation of a wheeled vehicle? I can't remember the dates of the other wheeled toys that were found. Notice the wheels aren't spoked, however, which according to David Anthony are first recorded in Sintashta in 2200 BC.

"SANLIURFA, TURKEY—The International Business Times reports that 5,000-year-old toys have been discovered in one of the 120 tombs in the necropolis at the ancient religious center of Sogmatar, which was dedicated to Sin, the god of the moon. Excavation leader Celal Uludag said the first toy, found in a child’s grave, is an earthenware horse carriage with four wheels. The front of the vehicle was decorated with incised lines. Uludag thinks it was made for the children of the city’s ruler or administrators. The second toy from the tomb is a rattle with a bird motif. All of the tombs in the necropolis were situated around a large, central mound."

 

[LeBrok]

It is pretty much like this one, Sumerian 2500BC:

 

[halfalp]

That's funny that actual all new studies wich includes hypothetised Indo-European cultural artefact are always dated to -5000 just in the gap transition of -6000 european neolithic and -4000 Indo-European explosion. " Sin the god of the Moon " a way later mesopotamian god... in a 5000 bc context. Is this an open westeran asian centric way to say, everything comes from Babel ?

 

[halfalp]

They put Mound, Chariot, Wheel and Horse in a 5000 BC context and liked it with western asia... At least we can say they are confident. : D

 

[Yetos]

hmm
just hmmmmmmmm

 

[Angela]

People, for goodness sakes' there is a big difference between 5000 years ago and 5000 BC. You really can't discuss these things unless you know the difference.

 

[halfalp]

My bad, didn't notice !