Wheels in the Dark: How Copper Miners Might Have Engineered Humanity’s Greatest Invention Computational design reveals a plausible path from primitive rollers to the first wheel-and-axle—born not from tinkerers in open fields, but from ore-hauling Neolithic miners deep in the Carpathians

Computer simulations suggest the wheel may have evolved underground. New research traces its origins to Neolithic miners in the Carpathians, not kings or armies. #Archaeology #HistoryOfTechnology #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #BigDataHistory