Animal-Drawn Plows

Harnessing draft animals to pull plows, expanding the area and depth of fields that households could cultivate.

Core metadata

ID: animal_drawn_plows
Era: Ancient
First known date: -3000 (millennium)
Region: Mesopotamia and Egypt
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

Heavy Draft Plowing (heavy_draft_plowing)

Fields

None.

Node sources

Plow (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge, node

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 3
Average edge confidence: 68%
Prerequisite sources: 3
expert_inference: 3

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Plow (plow)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Plow provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Plow (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge
Early Animal Domestication (animal_domestication)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Animal Domestication provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	The origins of animal domestication and husbandry: A major change in the history of humanity and the biosphere (Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2011, review) • Supports: edge
Animal Husbandry (animal_husbandry)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Animal Husbandry provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Pace and process in the emergence of animal husbandry in Neolithic Southwest Asia (Bioarchaeology of the Near East, 2014, review) • Supports: edge

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