>>507205287well they certainly got fatter, uglier and more diseased post-settlement. So sort of checks out.
>>507205298but they didn't have mill stones, or potters wheels, spinning wheels, gears, they didn't have anything even vaguely wheel like.
You see cars in the driveways of indigenous houses today and the car has no wheels, no steering wheel.
>>507205444wheelbarrow for moving rocks, mud bricks, to build stone buildings. Which they didn't do either. For mining, to make metal, which they didn't do. For road building.
You sort of need a wheel to have a windmill, or a water wheel, Asians often had water hammers instead but aboriginals had neither.
Pottery is really important, so a pottery wheel is important.
In the video I posted the white man made a belt wheel to get 10:1 MA on a blower for a forge. Something aboriginals also never had.
wheel for a plough maybe? you know...farming. grain. settlement.
Spinning wheel, working fiber take and extrodinariliy long time without a shuttle loom, spinning bob, spinning wheel. And that might be why you kept domestic animals as a source of fiber, which aboriginals didn't do either.
You can use a wheel as a flywheel for drilling, including a fire drill, but also to drill holes in beads, buttons, to speed up making stone fishing weights, stone tools, to carve or dremmel
Wheels are used in rollers, to make paper, to press fruits, to process leather, so you could glue stringy bark and roll it to make a kind of airtight canvas sheet that kept mosquitoes out.
mechanical calculator, which with only three gears can do calculations up to the million in a minute. I don't think aboriginals even had numbers above something like 20.
