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Travois in other part of the world in prehistoric time.
I originally used a google book link, but it wasn't working so well, so I changed it for a manual method.
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A '''travois''' ([[Canadian French]], from [[French language|French]] ''travail'', a frame for restraining horses; also obsolete '''travoy''' or '''travoise''') is a historical frame structure that was used by [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous peoples]], notably the [[Plains Indians]] of North America, to drag loads over land.
 
There is ground to support the thesis that travois were used in other parts of the world before the invention of the wheel<ref>{{Cite webbook|urltitle=httpsThe Western European Loess Belt://books.google.com/books?isbn Agrarian History, 5300 BC - AD 1000|last=1402098405Bakels|titlefirst=isbn:1402098405Corrie|publisher=Springer -Science Google& SearchBusiness Media|websiteyear=books.google.com2009|languageisbn=en1402098405, 9781402098406|access-datelocation=|pages=2018-07-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://musee-archeologienationale.fr/sites/musee-archeologienationale.fr/files/un_travois_pour_les_dieux.pdf|title=Un Travois pour les dieux. Lac de Chalain 31ième siècle avant J.-C.|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=History of road transport|date=2018-07-18|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_road_transport&oldid=850798986|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2018-07-18}}</ref>.
 
== Construction and use ==
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