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Wheeled Figurines in the Ancient World

Title
Wheeled Figurines in the Ancient World
Publication Type
Report
Year of Publication
1981
Authors
Sorenson, John L. (Primary)
Institution
FARMS
City
Provo, UT
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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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