Research Reveals How Ancient Farmers Built an ‘Engineering Wonder’
- Ancient Colombian peoples collectively built a vast 2,000-square-mile canal network without top-down hierarchy as reported in Communications Sustainability.
- From the first century BC to the 11th century, people in the La Mojana lowlands created the Zenú hydraulic systems by sculpting their wetlands with raised fields, ridges, and canals.
- These structures could be constructed in under six weeks during the dry season, indicating low labor demands that did not require hierarchical control.
- Research indicates that local communities organized and built these systems themselves, showing bottom-up community-driven engineering according to Jasmine Vieri.
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No Bosses: Ancient Engineering Marvel Was Built Without Rulers, Study Suggests
🌘Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Ancient people of Colombia used collective labor to build a massive canal network that spans 2,000 square miles, a discovery that challenges the assumption that colossal works require top-down hierarchical social organization, reports a study published on Monday in Communications Sustainability.From the fir…
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Research reveals how ancient farmers built an ‘engineering wonder’
A study suggests found that the impressive engineering work was most likely locally led and cooperative.
An archaeological study in La Mojana, in the Colombian Caribbean, reveals that the ancestral engineering of the Zenu people was community-based, sustainable and able to cope with the climatic extremes of flooding and drought that today devastate the region
Ancient Colombians built huge water system without centralized rule, archaeologists say
Communities living in Colombia thousands of years ago achieved an engineering wonder of the world based on cooperation among family groups without top-down government, a new study shows. Archaeologists argue that policymakers in Colombia should now adopt a similar strategy to solve the country's current water management crisis.
Above Cusco, in Peru, three huge zigzag walls guard one of the most impressive examples of Andean engineering. In Sacsayhuamán, giant blocks were carved in irregular and united shapes without mortar, creating such close frames that they fed for centuries the famous comparison that not a sheet of paper could penetrate many of the... The post The ancient stone fortress where blocks of more than 100 tons were embedded without mortar and hardly leav…
AgroExpo highlights advances in farm technology, research and equipment
The head of AgroLiquid says opening their main research site has given farmers and agribusinesses a place to evaluate the latest technology in real time. Nick Bancroft tells Brownfield the North Central Research Station was created by his grandfather in the early 1990s to show farmers in real time how fertilizer could be managed differently. […] The post AgroExpo highlights advances in farm technology, research and equipment appeared first on Br…
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