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Why is the first wheel always shown as stone? Surely a log would have lent itself to the discovery of rolling much more readily
Its called the stone age, not the log age, duh.
Not when I'm done with it
According to Google, what we call The Stone Age also included the use of wood products. They were often used together.
Lies.
Next thing you will try to convince us we were still using copper in the iron age.
Everything invented before the copper age is considered to be part of the stone age.
I would guess logs don't lend themselves to the historical/fossil whatever record as well as stone does. The oldest wheels we've found are stone because any potential log ones deteriorated, and this was all before written records.
That entire idea is so absurd I had to check.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel
Looks like the first transportation-related evidence of wheel we have was made of clay (probably because it was a toy). The first transportation-related actual wheel that we found was made of wood. The first wheel-shaped object we found wasn't used for transportation and was made of wood.
Stone is just a really bad material for making wheels. But I wrongly expected to see some metal ones on the list.
Fantastic example of survivorship bias.
The logs have since been rotated, got it.
Imagin if logs were actually perfect material for designing that one shape that produces infinite energy, food, and research.
Do you see any trees in that drawing? It seems cavemen existed exclusively in barren volcanic wastelands.
Haha yes, cavemen only lived in caves far away from forests of course.
Or maybe forests are just too complicated to draw for a cartoon.
Well duh, they're cavemen not forestmen
Obviously the dinosaurs were eating all the trees
Wheels were useless anyway until the invention of the axle, around 3500 BCE.
Mill stones are paleolithic so like 7000 years prior to the wheel and the good ones are just wheels with intentionally angled faces.
What good's an axle without...the grabby thing that holds the axle or whatever it connects to?
Not to mention the lack of internal combustion engines to power the whole thing.
Because the oldest reference disks we have are millstones? Idk. They always look like millstones to me
Might be more to do with stone lasting far longer than wood when it comes to decay.
You'd be surprised how long wood can last, but yeah stone certainly doesn't need such specific circumstances
Comedy
When it was on TV, the Flintstones cartoon made it to everyone's mind.
Rolling logs is something even beavers have probably been rediscovering over the eras.
The Flintstones fascinated me when I was a kid because everything had already been invented but it was just made out of rocks and wood instead of metal and plastic. So for example they had a stone dishwasher appliance powered by a bird or something.
Might have been grinding wheels for wheat; don’t have to be replaced as often and if in a stone track don’t have to worry as much about breakage. But that’s just a theory…. A history theory… or at least a history conjecture