[Aztlan] "Wheels" - In Reply to Bertram Perkel

[kim Goldsmith]

Unfortunately a lot of archaeological interpretation
(especially at the sites for which we have lost all of
our written and oral tradition)is close to "pure
speculation" (but we in the profession like to call it
"our best educated guess").  Insofar as not having
representations,you might take into consideration a
place like Teotihacan where we have less that .01 of
1% of the mural paintings remaining (and less than 10%
of the site actually explored).  And the murals that
ARE still here rarely represent buildings or things
like that at all.  The iconography is State
propaganda, and it is, for the most part, repetative
symbolism that normally represents human, animal or
geometric forms.

Let me reiterate - - I'm talking about what logic
deems as probable and coherent, NOT pure speculation
as you suggest.  We have civilizations with complex
technological and other activities backed by 100's of
years of tradition in the same.  Is it really so big a
leap to hypothesize that if people with that much
knowledge had the concept of the wheel with axles on a
small scale, they must have used it at least to SOME
extent on a larger scale?

Regards,

KIM



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