Bronocice pot

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/bronocice-pot

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1. What is the artifact type?Ceramic vase with incised decoration
2. What is the archaeological attribution?Funnelbeaker culture
3. What is the Bronocice pot and why is it special?It is a very old ceramic pot from Poland that shows one of the first pictures of a wheeled vehicle, showing early technology.
4. How old is the Bronocice pot?It was made about 5,500 years ago, in the mid-4th millennium BCE, as shown by radiocarbon dating.

Neolithic: The later part of the Stone Age, characterized by the development of agriculture and settled communities.
Chalcolithic: A period of prehistory characterized by the use of both stone and copper tools.
Proto-Indo-European: A hypothetical reconstructed prehistoric language from which all Indo-European languages are descended.
Diffusion: The spread of cultural beliefs, social-scientific ideas, and material culture such as technology.