The History of the Wheel

The potter's wheel was a heavy large disk which was made from clay, wood or stone. It basically had like a little bulge on its underside which sat in a little pedestal. And then you could spin the wheel within its pedestal and it would keep spinning thanks to momentum. The first archaeological kind of solid evidence we have of a wheel is in a site in the North Caucasus region where archaeologists found tens of thousands of ceremonial burial mounds.