Research Reveals How Ancient Farmers Built an ‘Engineering Wonder’
- Early farmers in South America built a giant irrigation system considered an engineering wonder of the world thousands of years ago.
- Communities in present-day Colombia created this vast irrigation network through cooperation among family groups without a top-down government.
- The pre-Hispanic field systems of La Mojana in the Colombian Caribbean are so large they are visible from high-altitude aircraft.
- The study found that local communities organized and built these canal-ridge systems quickly, possibly in less than two months, without relying on powerful external forces.
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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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