Even the ancient Inca fell for the cheap immigrant labor psyop.

There were toys and shit with wheels, they just didn't see it as being anything more than a novelty, plus there are other methods of making pottery such as the Zapotec "wheel" which does the same shit.

Caral Supe didn't use ceramics, anyway, they stored things in gourds. They had an incredibly complex system of irrigation, though. They started building canals around 4700 BC

>My hecking wheelerinos! How could they possibly do shit a different way?

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IMO Flynn effect was only substantial because the industrial revolution fricked people over for a long time. So the rapid gains were a result of better instruction on how to think how they want you to think, and creeping back up to pre-industrial living standards. It's a historical abberation and is now reversing.

Much like the often quoted redditscience of "puberty happens much younger now than in the past"--No it really doesn't, people were generally affected by abysmal living standards during the industrial revolution as compared to agrarian life, along with massive exposure to pollution. The average age was as early if not earlier in preindustrial life and much earlier in Paleolithic life, because people who survived were healthier and ate better. In fact, substantially intellectually disabled people tended to not survive at all.

There's no advantage your average person would have compared to Minoan, Gobleki Tepi person, or Caral Supean or whatever. Heck, your average person is more likely to die if they were transported 5000 years in the past because of modern life preserving dysgenic traits, and I would venture that actual average fluid intelligence and working memory is lower today than 5000 years ago. Back when you had to figure a lot of shit out on your own.

If you couldn't work out a way to keep yourself fed during the drought or the winter, you died. If you couldn't find water, you died.

Gerald Crabtree from Stanford thinks that human intelligence peaked several thousand years ago, I think it's kinda a wash but I like the idea because it makes redditroids at TTTT universities on le /r/badhistory and /r/badscience sneed hard

from the sky?!?!?!

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Hey man abos were pioneers of domestic violence despite not having invented the domicile. Pretty impressive tbh

They almost certainly could. But the only Inca wheels we have ever found have been children's toys.

Wouldn't their wheelbarrows just rot away with time?

Quipu, they were like big butt bundles of knots that could record phonological and numeric data. They've been discovered with the Caral Supe civilization, dating from 3000 BC and could be older considering that textiles rot.

In the early years of the Spanish conquest of Peru, Spanish officials often relied on the quipus to settle disputes over local tribute payments or goods production. Quipucamayocs (Quechua khipu kamayuq "khipu specialist", plural: khipu kamayuqkuna) could be summoned to court, where their bookkeeping was recognised as valid documentation of past payments.

However, nobody alive know exactly how they did so. But it was a code dependent on the placement and direction of the knots

idk, the guy just highlighted no written language as one of the reasons they couldn't cut/move rocks.

Knots. They tied fricking knots and had some marathon neighbor go run the cord to the next town over until it got to the recipient. Kinda wild

Remember, with today's technology built towards erecting sky scrapers, we couldn't stack giant heavy stones in a triangular pile.

Aliens are real, duh, just go down to Home Depot or your local luxury hotel

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