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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hand of Evil" data-source="post: 46498" data-attributes="member: 371">River travel can be different from river to river but a lot of cultures grew up on them.Answer to your first question is yes, in most cases very easily.  If wide enough even sail up them.  The biggest problems were objects and seasonal flooding.  Navagation up and down a river was only slower going up them, fighting the current, the best thing to do here is say tarvel up a river (unless it is deep and slow) takes twice as long going up than down.  Now don't forget the power of cannels!  These can be used where the river become too shallow or at rapids to level out waterways.  A lot of data has shown that Central and South America indians (Stone age) had very complex channel systems.  Riverboats for the most part are flat bottom boats, this makes it easier to travel over rooks, sandbars, rocks and move in shallower waters.  Ocean going boats use a keal to keep from tipping over.</blockquote>