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

[Steve Teale]

Sean Kelly Wrote:

> 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.

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