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We have reached peak archaeology. (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wheeled carts are not very practical without draught animals to pull them. And the one place they had animals like that, in South America, llamas and the civilizations that utilized them lived in the mountains where wheeled carts aren't practical either.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that is a common theory, but wheel-barrows are extremely useful and have been even utilized for long distance travel: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarrow.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know that you could necessarily develop the wheelbarrow without first having the concept of the wheeled cart.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't need it, to figure out a wheelbarrow just two logs and time.