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.
