How To Use Pre-columbian In A Sentence
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`The fancy term for pre-Columbian travel to and from other continents is diffusionism.
INCA GOLD
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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
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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
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No one was ever allowed to view his pre-Columbian artifacts.
INCA GOLD
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Pre-Columbian ancestor worship finds expression in prayers to the saints.
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Pre-Columbian art's contribution to modernism fails to fit into the teleologically reconstructed development from post-impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to abstract expressionism.
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Furthermore, the importance of Pre-Columbian art even to Gauguin has been obscured in favor of Oceanic and, in particular, African art.
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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. '
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The pre-Columbian Amerindian civilizations in particular produced a variety of vessel flutes, compound pipes and wind instruments.
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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.
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The figures are modeled as big hand-built pots, like early pre-Columbian figurines.
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If we consider that pre-Columbian lapidaries used stone, bone, wooden, and possibly copper tools with abrasive sand to carve stone, crystal skulls are much too perfectly carved and highly polished to be believed.
Legend of the Crystal Skulls
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The pre-Columbian Amerindian civilizations in particular produced a variety of vessel flutes, compound pipes and wind instruments.
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Gordon then sent photos of his discovery to famed ethnologist and archeologist Matthew Williams Stirling, who had described spheres beautifully worked by pre-Columbian natives of Costa Rica.
Las Piedras Bola: the great stone balls of Ahualulco
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Basing his screenplay on a tribal tale, Curtis sought to document the pre-Columbian culture of the Kwakiutl people of the Pacific Northwest.
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Some pieces of jade, two pre-Columbian figures she had been fond of, and a magnificent Persian rug.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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The object has onyx handles with cylindrical finger grips echoing post-classical pre-Columbian motifs.
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What credibility, if any, could be ascribed to pre-Columbian and early Spanish sources, to the codices, the chronicles, and the calendar stones that were being dug up in Mexico?
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Once it was hers, she began buying books about pre-Columbian gold.
A Collector's Journey of a Lifetime
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One place we have found our visitors to enjoy very much is Huachimontones, which is a pre-Columbian archeological site near the town of Teuchitlan, about 40 minutes west of Guadalajara (on the map you would go west toward Tequila and then left toward Ameca).
Side trips out of Guadalajara
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Their written language was the most advanced of the pre-Columbian scripts, and their astronomical knowledge beyond compare.
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The cochineal is a parasite of cacti of the genus opuntia, from which it has been harvested in South America since pre-Columbian times.
MAKE Magazine
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But this merely makes her wonder why she has this unhealthy fascination with pre-Columbian civilisation.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Pre-Columbian art's contribution to modernism fails to fit into the teleologically reconstructed development from post-impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to abstract expressionism.
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Machu Picchu ("Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian Inca city located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft) altitude on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, near Cusco.
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The Phillips is not only smaller, but it also has a very narrow focus; namely, a devotion to modern art rarely seen in larger museums where one might see Egyptian, European and pre-Columbian art, all under one roof.
Fire-Damaged Museum Reopens in Time for 90th Birthday
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Ecuador boasts the glories of Quito and, at the Museo Nacional, Hispanic America's greatest collection of pre-Columbian ceramics.
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Colours (ochre, sand and white) are taken from pre-Columbian and colonial houses, and are intended to respond to the endless layers of dry dun dust that blow up and down the coast.
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Madera is a mecca for the state's estimated 120,000 indigenous Mexican-Indian farm workers, many of whom are from Oaxaca and speak a pre-Columbian language called Mixtec.
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Despite the divine origins, thunderstones are not uncommon in Haiti; Westerners think of them as pre-Columbian axe heads and attribute their origins to the Arawakan Indians.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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CACIQUE Term is still used in Haiti to refer to the pre-Columbian Amerindian rulers and divisions of the country.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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Varo collected pre-Columbian art, studied eastern religions and was fascinated by the occult and alchemy, in particular.
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The pre-Columbian ruins of an entire city were essentially forgotten, perched on a mountain saddle 8,400 ft above sea level.
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It offers a wide variety of paintings and fine art prints, original production animation art and cels, pre-Columbian pottery, antique porcelain, art glass, bronze and marble sculpture and estate jewelry.
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Known since pre-Columbian times for its yellow latex and laxative properties, P. tomentellus is grown ornamentally and in herbarium collections.
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The disjunct distribution of the infection in Pacific islands and the Amazon basin has been used as medical evidence of pre-Columbian contact between Polynesians and South Americans.
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Machu Picchu or Old Peak is the name given to the stone ruins of a pre-Columbian Incan city perched high atop the Andean peaks of Peru.
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Madera is a mecca for the state's estimated 120,000 indigenous Mexican-Indian farm workers, many of whom are from Oaxaca and speak a pre-Columbian language called Mixtec.
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Chan Chan is the Pre-Columbian city of mud-brick built by the Chimú culture in the 9th Century and located in the La Libertad region, 5 km west of the city of Trujillo in Northern Peru.
Global Voices in English » Peru: Preservation Efforts in the Chan Chan Archaeological Site
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Their written language was the most advanced of the pre-Columbian scripts, and their astronomical knowledge beyond compare.
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They met in Mexico City, where she was the daughter of a prominent expatriate American banker and he was a hotshot archaeologist working on pre-Columbian Aztec digs.
What Makes Us Happy?
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For Western readers, the architecture of the ancient world, of the Orient, and of the pre-Columbian Americas may be divided into two groups: indigenous architecture and classical architecture.
