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[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 33 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Why is the first wheel always shown as stone? Surely a log would have lent itself to the discovery of rolling much more readily

[–] deltatangothree@lemmy.world 2 points 8 minutes ago

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.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 34 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Its called the stone age, not the log age, duh.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Not when I'm done with it

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 5 points 1 hour ago

Because the oldest reference disks we have are millstones? Idk. They always look like millstones to me

[–] Bad@jlai.lu 6 points 3 hours ago