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I'd be tempted to try precolumbian civilizations and baroque music ...
All-Star Weekend Heather McDougal 2007
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So far as I'm aware, no actual evidence has surfaced for precolumbian contact, except for the Norse and obviously the First Nations' ancestors got here.
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The atypically attractive room reinforces the deep historical roots of Mexican cuisine, which draws from highly localized precolumbian native traditions as well as Spanish and French colonial influences.
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In strong contrast with this, is the fact that all precolumbian American pottery _precedes_ the acquisition of written language, and this contrast is emphasized by the additional fact that it also antedates the use of the wheel, that great perverter of the plastic tendencies of clay.
Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466. William Henry Holmes 1889
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There is much, however, in the art of living tribes, especially of those least influenced by the whites, capable of throwing light upon the obscure passages of precolumbian art.
Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466. William Henry Holmes 1889
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A major fatal disease develops in precolumbian Mesoamerica.
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A major fatal disease develops in precolumbian Mesoamerica.
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Estimates of the precolumbian population of American range from 8 to 145 million.
RealClimate gavin 2008
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A major fatal disease develops in precolumbian Mesoamerica.
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