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Science and technology in Mesoamerica deals with the scientific, technological, and mathematical activity, discoveries, and achievements of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples and civilizations, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Maya, and Aztec. Mesoamerican civilizations and the technologies they developed show many stark contrasts to those of Eurasia. Mesoamericans never developed ironworking, draft animals, practical wheeled vehicles, or phonetic alphabets, for example. However, Mesoamericans developed hydraulic cement concrete, aqueducts and pressurized water plumbing, advanced water filtration system[1]s, place-value numerals (including zero), and polymers such as vulcanized rubber and lacquer, among many others.