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

[Sean Kelly]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> 
> 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.

Grain lasts for a reasonable time, but that requires agriculture to 
produce.  I guess they could dig tubers.  But I think there's a reason 
even modern hunter-gatherer societies don't use wagons, even in 
ostensibly flat regions like Africa.  If nothing else, hand carts would 
dramatically increase the calorie expenditure for travel, which means 
they'd need more food than otherwise.