• deltatangothree@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      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.

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      Imagin if logs were actually perfect material for designing that one shape that produces infinite energy, food, and research.