Oxdrawn

About 1500 B.C., it was overrun by tribesmen who had the military advantage of possessing iron weapons and horsedrawn chariots as against the copper weapons and oxdrawn carts of the natives.

Historically earlier forms of writing—such as the boustrophedon, or the way the oxdrawn plow moves—would have yielded a simpler line of writing for cutting, semiotically continuous and more readily materially isolated.

Cultures with furtive heels / return to your scholar's view, / whole biographies / lost on oxdrawn wheels;

After digging up the anthills, they crush the soil, sift it and then cart it to their fields by oxdrawn carts or wheel barrows.