Good point. The materials in this wicker cart wouldn't stick around over a long time if exposed to the elements. It is rather naive of modern cultures to assume that things didn't exist because they weren't mass produced. Humans are ingenious at making tools, and always have been. Trouble is, there is another naive modern habit, that is of assuming that people hundreds and/or thousands of years had the same kinds of thoughts as we do today. Beyond the physiological commonalities that drive us, we have to learn to think, and humans have ideas that are always evolving. There are concepts that simply did not exist in all or various cultures until paradigm shifts (another new concept) brought them into common usage. Global location and evolution of religion and writing and reading have had a lot to do with this. There is an accretion of ideas when they are put on paper and remembered over time, remembered perhaps in a different way than if they were part of the oral tradition and changed and shifted as they were passed along.

Very large nutshell to encapsulate a view of the evolution of human ideas, but good luck with the cart. (Will my nutshell fit in your cart?)

SRS