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200km is not necessarily 'imported'. People can walk 5km/hr easily. You are talking about 4 days' comfortable walk. Many nomadic groups would have had ranges ex
by contingencies 10y ago
200km is not necessarily 'imported'. People can walk 5km/hr easily. You are talking about 4 days' comfortable walk. Many nomadic groups would have had ranges exceeding 200km at least on occasion. For example I believe there is evidence that some Australian aboriginal societies regularly communicated over vaster distances, at least sporadically - eg. annually in certain seasons.
- jankotek 10y agoMany people walked that distance every year for seasonal jobs even in 20th century.
- icebraining 10y agoThey still do for pilgrimage - the main "Camino de Santiago" (St. James' Way) from France to Spain is 700km+, and some people make the journey every year. Obviously nowadays they have modern comforts, but the Way stretches back centuries.
- madaxe_again 10y ago200km is also well within the range of river transport washing erratics downstream.