Indigenous
Humans arrived in the Americas long before the end of the ice age and used travals long before the invention of the wheel, according to a new study.
Footprints found in New Mexico, accompanied by equally old tracks, can be the “first steps” to redefine the history of the mill and transportation methods used by humans.
This is because these tracks, which are between 21 and 23,000 years old, can be the oldest known proof of a hand cart, or a sled -like technology, according to the new investigation. What is fascinating is that There was no wheel At that time, it would not even be for thousands of years.
The footprints referred to in the study in January in Quaternary Science Advances were found in 2009, alongside seeds and tracks in White Sands – The place of the first atomic bomb test in 1945. It was these footprints that showed us that, after all, humans arrived in the Americas long before the end of the ice age.
So far, the researchers have focused their attention on the footprints themselves, but this new study focuses on the curious tracks that accompany them-are definitely dragging marks, which point to the use of wagons or sled.
The brands were made by wooden dicks, dragged by the people who left the footprints, behind their backs, believes the team responsible for the investigation. More specifically, travoistraditionally used by indigenous peoples.
“We thought the travals were probably improvised from tent, wood and spears, when necessary,” the study authors say, who underline that so far there were no evidence to suggest the use of travals in prehistoric times.
The recreation of dragging marks, made by a simple structure in ‘a’ similar to Travois, corresponded to the marks found in White Sands. Other brands were wider and less deep, suggesting that an object was used to spread the impact point. A third type of brands seemed to run in parallel, according to.
The investigation team collaborated with the indigenous peoples of the area, which also played brands such as ancient transportation tools. Both believe that the most likely application of these strollers was Drag the meat home after a large killing, or wood.
The origins of the wheel continue to be very debated: some that was invented about 6,000 years ago in the carpathies; Others argue that the wheel originated from Mesopotamia around 4000 BC; Others believe it was along the coast of Türkiye’s point, around 3800 BC, that the wheel was invented. Has Travois influenced one of the greatest inventions in human history?
