# Bronocice pot depicts a wheeled wagon (-3500)

URL: https://poland-history.com/timeline/-3500-bronocice-pot-depicts-a-wheeled-wagon
Location: Bronocice

A clay vessel from Bronocice in Lesser Poland bears one of the oldest known images of a four-wheeled vehicle, showing the early spread of the wheel. Within the broader Prehistoric Poland period: From the first Palaeolithic hunters to the Bronze Age, the lands between the Oder and the Vistula saw waves of migration, the arrival of farming and the growth of ever more complex communities long before any state existed. At this point in the timeline (c. 3,500 BCE), the governing authority was Prehistoric communities (No single ruler). The lands of present-day Poland were inhabited by successive Palaeolithic hunters and Neolithic and Bronze Age farming communities; there was no state or single ruler. Bronocice pot depicts a wheeled wagon mattered because it offers material evidence of how people lived on Polish soil long before written records, and helps date the region's earliest cultures. The event is placed here so readers can follow it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion and culture across Polish history.

## Why it matters
Bronocice pot depicts a wheeled wagon mattered because it offers material evidence of how people lived on Polish soil long before written records, and helps date the region's earliest cultures.

Ruler at the time: [Prehistoric communities](https://poland-history.com/rulers/prehistoric-communities)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — Bronocice pot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronocice_pot)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Bronocice pot depicts a wheeled wagon](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Bronocice+pot+depicts+a+wheeled+wagon)
- [Wikipedia — Prehistory and protohistory of Poland (period overview)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_and_protohistory_of_Poland)