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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

We may have reached peak archaeology now, but human society peaked around A.D. 550 in Mexico

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 24 points 2 years ago (11 children)

They say that Native Americans never developed the wheel. They clearly did. For sick dog skateboard tricks.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Yeah, it kinda makes you wonder... they clearly knew but AFAIK didn't bother using it for anything but such toys.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 12 points 2 years 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.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 years 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

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

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