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[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Depends on your definition of "wheel". For example, any ancient perfectly round pottery was made using a pottery wheel (primitive or not). Otherwise, how would you do it?

That's how we know the ancient Sumerians were using pottery wheels as early as 3250 BCE (because we found perfectly round pottery that's that old):

https://www.colorado.edu/classics/2018/06/15/potters-wheel#:~:text=The%20potter's%20wheel%20is%20an,(2).