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A comment on 1491: It’s likely that everything you know about American prehistory is wrong. Parent comment

Re:1491: It’s likely that everything you know about American... by zajio1am on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:06PM (#34167763)
> I keep wondering how these civilizations might have developed if we'd discovered them in, say, 1900 instead of 1500s.

Reality check: pre-columbian americans did not have iron metallurgy, in this sense they were thousands years behind Europe and even Africa.

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Re:1491: It’s likely that everything you know about American... by hattmall on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:52PM (#34168906)
That's true, but their food production capabilities were generally far more advanced.
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Re:1491: It’s likely that everything you know about American... by somat on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:26AM (#34170376)
They also surprisingly did not have the wheel, or to frame it in the silliest way possible, the aztecs had the wheel, but never use it for it's mechanical properties.
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