Yes, even the Precolumbian Mayans and Olmecs were racist.
Olmec Colossal Stone Heads - Mexico Unexplained
Posted on 08/02/2020 2:06:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
No llamas in the Yucatán.
I expect that Mayans did use wheels, just not on carts. The problem is that there are no draft animals that the Mayans had access to for which a wheeled cart carried more than packs. Prior to the development of roller and ball bearings any increase in load afforded by a wheeled cart pulled by humans was consumed by the friction of the wheel bearings.
I would expect that the Mayans did use small wheels to help them build their cities, better known as pulleys.
Thanks PAR35 for the link.
I'm givn' you an LOL, even though in Mayan "X" is "Sh", and I'll only nitpick that that because I'm hideously jealous I didn't think of it first. ;^)
Yes, even the Precolumbian Mayans and Olmecs were racist.
Olmec Colossal Stone Heads - Mexico Unexplained
Same here. The Inca stucco was typically painted, has larged been washed off by the rain, leaving the rough stone walls, and the Mayans lived in at least as much rain and a lot longer ago.
Rome could build that in a day.
True -- as long as it wasn't inside city limits, because, y'know, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Since it is known that the Aztecs and Incas did have communications (neither fast nor direct), I wonder why there was no attempt to bring llamas to the valley of Mexico (Mexico City area). Even if used only as meat animals they would have been an improvement in diet, and increased options for farmers in lean years given that they can eat things that humans cannot (corn stover?).
Humans are pretty good draft animals. I’m thinking of the old hand-pulled rickshaws in the Orient and the handcarts many Americans dragged across half our continent on their way to Utah and Oregon. I’m sure there are lots of other examples. And the Mayans certainly had plenty of human power.
LOL!
I suspect a better explanation is we sit on the shoulders of giants and think we owe our view entirely to ourselves. We've had wheels for moving loads for so many thousands of years we cannot conceive of anyone NOT making the connection...but in the New World, it seems no one did.
Like the concept of zero, double ledger book keeping, the horse collar or using water wheels for something besides grinding grain there are any number of things that are blindingly obvious in retrospect.
The image looks like something from Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii or something taken in Russia before the revolution. May I ask it’s history ?
“May I ask it’s history ?”
Came from Wiki:
“A photochrom from the late 19th century showing two peddlers selling milk from a dogcart near Brussels, Belgium”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcart_(dog-drawn)
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