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A good survey it is! I hadn't thought about it. But I'm guessing the wheel
didn't have all that much to do with it. I'm thinking the earliest people
were nomadic. They moved from place to place, as the seasons changed and/or
the food supply dried up. And when they moved, they walked. They probably
had some pack animals, but they didn't have wheels way back then.

I'm guessing the composition of pots, pans and cooking utensils varied due
to the available materials. Baskets woven from whatever is available, to
store grain in. Cooking pots made from local clay. Knives chipped from
obsidian, flint or iron. But they were always on the move. Always changing
what materials they used. Eventually they learned to forge iron into steel.

FW: I inherited a really sharp set of stainless steel steak knives. I'm
betting this is how the technology started <wink>

Jill