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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Soon afterwards the American archaeologist made a second unsettling
discovery at Tres Zapotes: children’s toys in the form of little wheeled
dogs. These cute artefacts conflicted head-on with prevailing
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archaeological opinion, which held that the wheel had remained
undiscovered in Central America until the time of the conquest. The
‘dogmobiles’ proved, at the very least, that the principle of the wheel had
been known to the Olmecs, Central America’s earliest civilization. And if a
people as resourceful as the Olmecs had worked out the principle of the
wheel, it seemed highly unlikely that they would have used it just for
children’s toys.

Geographic Magazine, volume 76, August 1939, pp. 183-218 passim
9 Matthew W. Stirling, ‘Great Stone Faces of the Mexican Jungle’, National Geographic
Magazine, volume 78, September 1940, pp. 314, 310.

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