Pack Animal Transport
Use of donkeys, horses, camels, or oxen to carry loads over paths where carts or boats were impractical.
Core metadata
- ID: pack_animal_transport
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -3000 (millennium)
- Region: Global / multiple regions
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Early Animal Domestication (animal_domestication)
- Early Navigation (early_navigation)
- Yokes & Harnesses (yokes_and_harnesses)
Dependents
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- 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, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 70%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Animal Domestication (animal_domestication) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Animal Domestication provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Yokes & Harnesses (yokes_and_harnesses) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Yokes & Harnesses provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Early Navigation (early_navigation) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Early Navigation is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. | No sources recorded. |
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