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Earthenware model portraying a bull on wheels. The artifact belongs to the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, flourishing from about 5,500 to 2,750 B.C. in the region of the Dnestr-Dnepr river, which extends in the territory of actual Romania, Moldavia and Ukraine (Litvinskii 2005). The creators of this Neolithic culture built the largest settlements in Europe at that time. It is possible that this little object reproduced a ceremonial device of bigger dimensions, as it is suggested by the Anatolian paintings, and that it could be the prototype of later carnival floats. The artifact is exhibited in the National Historical Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine.

[Image: http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/just-when-was-the-wheel-invented-and-by-whom/]