How To Use pre-Columbian In A Sentence
- `The fancy term for pre-Columbian travel to and from other continents is diffusionism. INCA GOLD
- The museum's collection of pre-Columbian earthenware is outstanding and the museum is not so huge as to overwhelm the casual visitor. Guadalajara and the Iztepete archeological site
- A pair of deep, flat-bottomed holes have been chiseled out of the red clay of eastern Georgia in the U.S., like twin sports arenas from the pre-Columbian era. Southern Co's Nuclear Gambit
- No one was ever allowed to view his pre-Columbian artifacts. INCA GOLD
- Pre-Columbian ancestor worship finds expression in prayers to the saints.
- Pre-Columbian art's contribution to modernism fails to fit into the teleologically reconstructed development from post-impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to abstract expressionism.
- Furthermore, the importance of Pre-Columbian art even to Gauguin has been obscured in favor of Oceanic and, in particular, African art.
- As for the other religious terms, 2 are Nahuatl: teocalli ` temple 'and teopan ` temple grounds'; 2 are Quechua: huaca or guaca ` an ancient Peruvian sacred object, such as a mountain, animal, shrine, or artifact, inhabited by a god or spirit 'and huaco or guaco ` a pre-Columbian relic of Peru,' as an object discovered in a tomb; and one is Mayan: cenote ` a natural well or sinkhole into which sacrificial offerings were thrown during ceremonies. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
- The pre-Columbian Amerindian civilizations in particular produced a variety of vessel flutes, compound pipes and wind instruments.
- Thus Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd -- an obscure North Walian princeling whose only factual claim to bardic fame had been his nautical bent and eventual disappearance at sea -- was euhemerized by Tudor propagandists into the pre-Columbian discoverer of America. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
