Pre-Hispanic American Civil Engineering
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Description: Lessons for Today by Kashiya A. S. Yapa. A reflection on how modern development projects could improve by learning from pre-Columbian cultures.
PREHISPANIC AMERICAN CIVIL ENGINEERING , presented at 49th Congress of Americanists, Prehispanic civil engineering works of the American continent have yet to receive the attention and the respect they deserve. Since the Conquest, not only the western intellectuals and builders, but also the continent’s own population ignored them. The westerners, because they aimed at firstly in looting the continent’s immense mineral wealth and secondly at transplanting a political scheme, dependent totally on western economic power centers, assuring a continuous flow of wealth in their direction. The American population, the majority mestizos, who received the politico-economic reins from the colonial administrations glorifying the western "civilization", not only ignored their own past beyond the Conquest but also destroyed it, at times intentionally. Only recently, specifically during the last mid-century, has surged among the American populations an interest in seeking an own identity based on prehispanic cultures. Hence, the need to rediscover and reevaluate the ancient systems of political and economic development.
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