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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