"I don't jump to saying, 'Okay, spindle whorls are [cart] wheels,' Yashuv tells Ars. In many studies of the invention of the wheel, they're talking about sledges and all sorts of things that are focused on the function of transportation-which is correct."
"Once that mechanical principle was firmly embedded in humanity's collective stash of knowledge, it was a matter of time (a few thousand years) before people looked at animal-drawn sledges, then looked at their pottery wheels and spindles, and put two and two together and got a cart with wheels-or at least, that's Yashuv's hypothesis."
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