pre-Columbian

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Adjective

pre-Columbian (not comparable)

1. Referring to the cultures of the American continent before the European influence, specifically to the era before the continent was visited by Christopher Columbus.

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   • 1961, Margaret A. Towle, The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru, Transaction Publishers (ISBN 9780202369631), page 2:

     In fact, the dating of pre-Columbian Andean cultures was largely a matter of guesswork.

   • 2010, Marylou Kjelle, In Pre-Columbian America, Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. (ISBN 9781612280264), page 41:

     Boys trained to be warriors, but why did pre-Columbian peoples battle one another?

Translations

• French: précolombien
• German: präkolumbisch
• Italian: precolombiano
• Portuguese: pré-colombiano
• Spanish: precolombino

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