Archaeology/Specific History

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Can't really think of anything in my locale but to bump a thread that might be interesting:
In 2002, archaeologists working in the Ljubljana marsh discovered what to this day remains the oldest discovered wheel in the world. The wheel itself is made of ash wood while the axel is made of a single piece of oak wood. The wheel dates to about 5200 years ago. Apparently, similar wheel designs have been found in the south of Germany and in Switzerland which makes sense as other discoveries in the marsh show that the people there were in contact with communities in the Alps, the Balkans and the Apennine Peninsula.