Sujet : Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 04. Nov 2024, 00:28:22
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 12:49:47 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
I’ve never understood why native Americans didn’t use the wheel. Maybe
the Incas, because mountain trackways aren’t to conducive to wheeled
traffic, but besides Chaco the Mayans and the Amazonian civilization had
roads with no wheels. I also don’t understand why there was no American
bronze age when they certainly used metals, including copper.
I think the lack of horses prior to the Europeans played a part. True,
people have used dogcarts and even the hand pushcarts used by some of the
Mormon recruits on their way to the promised land.
Even with horses the Plains tribes used travois, scaling up the dog
travois. Photos from the late 19th century still show travois well after
they had seen wheels in use.
Bad case of if it ain't broke don't fix it? Metals may have been the same.
Some tools were made from bronze alloys stone tools worked,