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To be clear south american civilisations had the wheel and used it for throwing pottery, for drills and many other uses different than transportation - it is also suspected that they used the same log method to move large objects. Just not a wheel-axle-bearing "vehicle"


Coiling was actually the main method and there's not any evidence they used potters wheels until after European contact and even then it didn't take off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramics_of_Indigenous_peoples...


I don't think any American civilizations had the potter's wheel.




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