Bronze Age Chariots from Europe

Emmanuel Anati

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Bronze Age Chariots from Europe

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Emmanuel Anati

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The Oriental origin of the wheeled vehicle has long been recognized. It seems to have originated in Sumer, in the Uruk period, in the first half of the fourth millennium B.C.

A rich collection of material, including isolated wheels and other remains of wheeled vehicles, models and pictures representing vehicles, show that wagons and carts had spread to Italy, Eastern and Central Europe, and the south Scandinavian countries by the middle of the second millennium B.C. Although the presence of wheeled vehicles has been claimed in Spain as early as the ‘copper age’ the first datable evidence for them is given there by the Solana de Cabanas stele and other west Spanish stelae that probably belong to the end of the second and the first millennium B.C.

Type: Research Article
Information: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 26 , December 1960 , pp. 50 - 63

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^{page 59 note 1} Room XXXV. I wish to express my indebtedness to Professors C. Drago and S. Puglisi for allowing me to study this model.

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^{page 63 note 1} I wish to thank Dr H. Hencken, who first gave me the idea of writing this paper, for continuous help and advice.

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