1. Pre-Columbian ancestor worship finds expression in prayers to the saints.

2. Varo collected pre-Columbian art, studied eastern religions and was fascinated by the occult and alchemy, in particular.

3. Pre-Columbian cultures in the New World did sophisticated operations, including skull surgery, with obsidian, he added.

4. The pre-Columbian Amerindian civilizations in particular produced a variety of vessel flutes, compound pipes and wind instruments.

5. They are among the few pre-Columbian settlements in the Amazon where archaeological evidence can be linked directly to present-day customs.

6. Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica.

7. Cahokia, the urban center of the pre-Columbian Mississippian culture, was located near present-day Collinsville, Illinois.

8. The Incan civilization was the largest pre-Columbian empire in America.

9. Machu Picchu ("Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian Inca city located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft) altitude on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, near Cusco.

10. Their written language was the most advanced of the pre-Columbian scripts, and their astronomical knowledge beyond compare.

11. Today less than 30% of modern Mexicans identify themselves as being fully or partly Amerindians and the remaining population seems to have very little in common with their pre-Columbian ancestors.

12. For Western readers, the architecture of the ancient world, of the Orient, and of the pre-Columbian Americas may be divided into two groups: indigenous architecture and classical architecture.

13. All these terms for the native people of America show just how diverse Pre-Columbian America was and the disagreement that continues between scholars today about this period.

14. The Mayan civilisation was one of the most spectacular in pre-Columbian history.

15. The period prior to the day his crew first spotted land is known as pre-columbian American history.

16. Now, the amazing thing is, if you go to Mexico you can go to museums that have children's toys from pre-Columbian Mexico with wheels.

17. Machu Picchu or Old Peak is the name given to the stone ruins of a pre-Columbian Incan city perched high atop the Andean peaks of Peru.

18. Ecuador boasts the glories of Quito and, at the Museo Nacional, Hispanic America's greatest collection of pre-Columbian ceramics.

19. Hidden under the forest canopy are the remnants of a complex pre-Columbian society.

19. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

20. Basing his screenplay on a tribal tale, Curtis sought to document the pre-Columbian culture of the Kwakiutl people of the Pacific Northwest.

21. Early European settlers in the new world brought the idea with them from Europe, but the remains of at least one pre-Columbian windmill made of stone on the east coast of the US has been identified.

22. Well, it apparently is not so obvious because in the Americas, before Columbus came-- " pre-Columbian America-- there were no wheeled vehicles anywhere.

23. AT POPE'S CREEK, on America's Potomac river, there's a pre-Columbian rubbish tip of oyster shells covering 30 acres, to an average depth of ten feet.

24. five years on the road, MoLab has analyzed everything from a pre-Columbian Mixtec codex in the British Museum to expressionist paintings, such as Angst and Puberty, at the Munch Museum in Oslo.

25. Columbian emeralds have been found in archeological digs dating back to pre-Columbian times, from the 1200's, as artifacts such as crystals set in gold.

26. And museums and restaurants have opened in its historic center, including the refurbished Museo del Oro, which houses pre-Columbian treasures.