The s143 Wheel-Lore continues — facts and folklore about the wheel to wet your appetite for the upcoming Reinventing the Wheel show.
#4: Wikipedia claims the invention of the wheel falls in the late Neolithic/New Stone Age (around 7,000 years ago), along with other technological advances that brought about the Bronze Age. Quite shocking: although paleo-anthropologists now date the emergence of anatomically modern humans to about 150,000 years ago, 143,000 of those years were “wheel-less”! 143,000…Coincidence? We think not.