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Iraq), dated c. 3500-3350 BCE. Several historians argue that there was a diffusion of the wheeled vehicle from the Near East to Europe around the mid-4th millennium BCE. However, all of the earliest evidence for wheeled vehicles, including models, pictorial representations, wheels and vehicle remains, is in Europe, rather than in the Near East. According to Schier (2015), "The present evidence for early wheeled transport does not support the traditional belief in the oriental invention of wheel and wagon",

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