Ochoin wrote:Surely a Hun wagon would have solid wheels, crude sides & the roughest of limber poles.
Only if all of their wheel-wrights had been killed by a disease or by enemy action.
To nomadic peoples use wagons to carry their lives. They carry the women, the children, the
gurs or the
yurts, their pots, pans, pets, slaves and sleeping gear.
The wagons were as must a sign of status as thd goods they carried, why would they then stick a sawn off tree stump on them as a wheel?
Solid sheels are inefficient and ineffective, plus as far back as you can go in funeral goods and illustrations, carts and chariots have been shown with spoked wheels.
Obviously people DID sometimes use solid wheels, but I would argue that people who relied on wheeled transport used spoken wheels.