Bikepacking - a viable alternative to racks & panniers

Hahaha. . . That's got to be the worst example you could have used! :)
When you place something on a rock, its still just a rock... But if as the all knowing Mr William Harkin claims. . . That over the centuries people learned to carve them for themselves. . . Then again, it just shows that whoever the first one of these carvers was to specifically carve something to specifically place their things on. . . Was the person who did indeed 'invent' the shelf! :)