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...earliest known evidence of wheels -- essentially wooden planks rounded at the ends and fitted together in a circle -- which were used on ox-drawn carts and, later, chariots. Sailing ships embarked on distant trading missions. By 3000 B.C., the world's first written language, cuneiform, had appeared on small clay tablets, replacing the strings of marked clay tokens that merchants had previously used to keep track of their transactions. And at least one familiar superstition was established: when the Sumerians spilled salt, they would throw a pinch over one shoulder to ward off bad luck...
...shores of the Caspian and Aral seas and Lake Baikal. On the Iranian plateau, farmed since at least the 6th millennium B.C., people lived in houses of sun-dried brick, while craftsmen in the city of Anau used the potter's wheel to turn out elaborately shaped and painted clay vessels. These prehistoric Persians carried on trade with small villages in what is now northern Pakistan...
...Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably as a sacrament in ancestor worship. After removing internal organs and drying the cavf mdavers, they stuffed the remains with feathers, grass, shell, wool and earth. Then the bodies were covered with clay, fitted out with wigs and propped up in family- like groups. The Chinchorro then took care of their mummies, judging by evidence of frequent repairs...
...Israelis by Palestinians. "This is not a spontaneous thing," says Ali Abu Hilal, another opposition activist. "And I think the future will bring more violence." Israeli security experts fear that the rejectionists may embark on a new round of global terror. "Just now their alliance is more like wet clay than a finished pot," says an Israeli official...
Third, Crowe makes the garage door opener serve as a consistent symbol of attachment. The set decorator (Clay Griffith) and set designer (Cosmas Demetriou) manage to place this middle class prop within easy grabbing distance anytime a character is about to propose a commitment...