Wheeled Figurines in the Ancient World

Title

Wheeled Figurines in the Ancient World

Publication Type

Report

Year of Publication

1981

Authors

Institution

FARMS

City

Provo, UT

Abstract

John Sorenson offers a survey and interpretation of the evidence that the wheel was known in the New World before the arrival of European explorers in the early sixteenth century. He discusses Mesoamerican and Old World wheeled figurines, wheels and movement in Mesoamerican belief, and the similarities between figurines in the New World and the Old.

Subject Keywords

Mesoamerica
Ancient America
Wheels

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