How to Use pre-Columbian in a Sentence

pre-Columbian

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• Many of these coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are over 300 feet tall and have been alive since pre-Columbian times.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• But the roots of Día de los Muertos go back thousands of years to rituals that honor the dead in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
• Both a social activity and a caffeine-fix, mate dates back to pre-Columbian times, when the leaves were hand-picked in the same manner as Lemos has been doing for the past 30 years.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• This was probably true in pre-Columbian Mexico as well.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Cacao was used by the pre-Columbian populations of the Maya and Aztecs, who venerated it as a sacred food.
  — Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
• With the aroma of copal (the iconic pre-Columbian incense of choice in Tulum) permeating the space, the restaurant is warm and inviting.
  — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2023
• The spools frame her mask-like open mouth, decorating voids in the human skull that signaled the soul’s vivacity in pre-Columbian culture.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• The parts of the chairs that someone would be in contact with (like the seat, back, and armrests) are made smooth to the touch using a pre-Columbian technique of burnishing, which involves rubbing the surface with a stone to seal it.
  — Curbed, 5 June 2023
• The authors hope this analysis gives further insight into the lives of pre-Columbian people of the Americas.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
• More than 25 percent of the state's roughly four million inhabitants are indigenous, and most of its 12 ethnic groups trace their roots to pre-Columbian Mayan peoples.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
• Concentric circular trenches, some as much as 60 feet deep, had been carved into the volcanic rock of the mountaintop, bringing to mind a pre-Columbian earthwork.
  — Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Jose Vera Gonzalez shows off one of his paintings inspired by the Parthenon's collection of pre-Columbian artifacts.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 24 July 2024
• The ancestral beverage has deep roots in Indigenous Ecuadorian culture, dating back to the pre-Columbian era.
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Dec. 2023
• Effigy Mounds preserves 200 or so prehistoric earthworks that were built by pre-Columbian people.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
• For visitors, the structures demonstrate a living version of pre-Columbian engineering that’s far more accessible than the Inca citadel to the north.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• For many years, Nashville’s Parthenon museum housed hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts in its collections.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024
• Beginning in pre-Columbian America, Native peoples have ground the tree’s acorns into meal and knew its strong roots could be counted on during disasters.
  — Shannon Sims, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
• Each space is accented by the artists’ collections of African art, Mexican folk art and textiles, pre-Columbian pieces, contemporary art and ceramics, and their own work.
  — Michael Wollaeger, ELLE Decor, 15 Feb. 2023
• Ergo pre-Columbian people must have achieved flight, millennia before Orville and Wilbur Wright, with help from extraterrestrials.
  — Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
• History of Chia Seeds Chia seeds have their origin in pre-Columbian indigenous populations.
  — María Quiles, Glamour, 21 Mar. 2024
• In a town in northern Peru, Renzo, a teenager who dreams of becoming a professional gamer, is contacted through a video game by the spirit of an ancient pre-Columbian warrior.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• It is known for being the cradle of several advanced pre-Hispanic (or pre-Columbian) civilizations.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
• His ceramic pieces — inspired by pre-Columbian mythology and the Mexican landscape — are a prominent feature within the show.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• In the contemporary, helter-skelter sweep of Mexico City, there is one place — in the southern borough of Xochimilco — where a vision of a watery, pre-Columbian capital may still be imagined.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Such hallucinogenic substances have been used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas to induce altered states of consciousness and healing since pre-Columbian times.
  — Claire Rush and Gene Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
• To articulate those connections, Escobedo has drawn loosely on the precedents of pre-Columbian Latin America.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Dec. 2024
• Auctions are a stimulating mess of things coming together: a perfume bottle from 1900, a pre-Columbian artwork, a contemporary African painting.
  — Laura May Todd, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Zúñiga introduced her to pre-Columbian ceramic techniques and woodcarving.
  — Shameekia Shantel Johnson, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• Archaeologists similarly used a drone to uncover the eroded remains of a large pre-Columbian earthworks buried beneath a field in southeastern Kansas.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
• Luján, a painter and sculptor, was known for incorporating pre-Columbian imagery and tapping into mythical settings that embraced Aztlan, symbolic to the Chicano movement.
  — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024