[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Christopher Wright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> I don't buy it.  Most foods would spoil too quickly for this to matter, 
> the wagons would be slow, wheels would need repair, etc.  If I were in a 
> nomadic tribe I wouldn't do more than pile stuff on the back of a Mule.

It depends on whether you'd domesticated some sort of pack animal first. 
I'm talking about hand carts.

As for spoiling...well, trial and error would get you to some reasonable 
system for storing food within a few hundred years, without much food 
loss. If you're willing to lose more food, you can get there sooner.