Evidence Found for Canals That Watered Ancient Peru

NY Times ^ | January 3, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! I feel very yeomanlike sometimes, but Blam does most of the posting. In fact, pound for pound, he may have posted more topics than anyone on FR. :')

[wardaddy]

doesn't matter...this is proof they were better than my melanin deficient ancestry...and that's all that ever matters

[SunkenCiv]

the New World suffered from a conspicuous scarcity of draft animals.

Yeah, that's probably most of the problem, although I was in a virtual gunfight in a topic regarding PreColumbian non-extinction of the horse... ;')

[airedale]

Take a look at the abstract that is the last link in the earlier post. It's got a really good explanation of why the wheel wasn't used in the New World (not just in mountainous area). The New World did use the wheel (rotational tools) for other things but not transportation.