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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• International companies hungry for carbon offsets have paid big money for biochar made using pre-Columbian Amazonian production techniques.
  — Chelsea Fisher, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
• Her research helped Mexicans understand their pre-Columbian national heritage, in its sophisticated engineering, gardening, artistry, and cosmology, as being as glorious as that of Mediterranean societies in the classical era.
  — Merilee Grindle, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024