How to Go from Spindle Whorls to Wagon Wheels in Just 6,000 Years, or Rotational Energy and the Wheel of Destiny

New studies on the origins of the wheel have us wondering, why did it take thousands of years to go from 10^th millennium BCE spindle whorls in Israel to 4^th millennium BCE wheels in the Carpathian mountains, were rollers and copper mining really involved, and how much rotational energy is really provided courtesy of Fred Flintstone’s two feet?