How to Use pre-Columbian in a Sentence

pre-Columbian

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• There’s a pre-Columbian puppet-like figurine on display.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
• The resin works symbolize our pre-Columbian origins through their designs, while also reflecting our present.
  — Gabriela Molina Riascos, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2025
• Corn is not only a staple food, but also a precious element in pre-Columbian rites that endures today.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The pre-Columbian mound complexes scattered across North America met a similar fate.
  — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Zúñiga introduced her to pre-Columbian ceramic techniques and woodcarving.
  — Shameekia Shantel Johnson, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• Effigy Mounds preserves 200 or so prehistoric earthworks that were built by pre-Columbian people.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
• 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
• With roots dating back to pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico, they were kept as companions and even thought to guide souls in the afterlife.
  — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
• For many years, Nashville’s Parthenon museum housed hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts in its collections.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024
• The troupe’s performances feature music, dance and costumes spanning pre-Columbian civilizations to today.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
• History of Chia Seeds Chia seeds have their origin in pre-Columbian indigenous populations.
  — María Quiles, Glamour, 21 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The home of the Mexico City Diablos Rojos rises from the ground like a pre-Columbian pyramid.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Teotihuacán, an ancient pre-Columbian city, is one of Mexico's most popular tourist attractions, drawing millions of visitors each year.
  — Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
• Ergo pre-Columbian people must have achieved flight, millennia before Orville and Wilbur Wright, with help from extraterrestrials.
  — Discover Magazine, 4 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
• 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
• In the Americas, carnivals present elements rooted in pre-Columbian or African traditions.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Ancient petroglyphs of human figures and cryptic symbols thought to have been scrawled by the Taino, the islands’ pre-Columbian inhabitants, appeared under our flashlight beams.
  — Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026