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Maize was the focal point of many Pre-Columbian religions, playing an analogous role to bread in Western religion, or rice in Eastern cultures. Humans themselves are both physically and spiritually melded from corn. [6] Research has shown that maize may have even been a staple food in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean.
Cuisine of the precolonial indigenous cultures of the Great Plains. Precolonial in this context refers to food and dishes that started in Pre-Columbian times. Items in this category may be in use modern day or an extinct practice. Note: Not all tribes ate everything on this list.
Native American cuisine of the Southeastern Woodlands (12 P) Pages in category "Pre-Columbian Native American cuisine" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
More conservative Western art museums have classified Indigenous art of the Americas within arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with precontact artwork classified as pre-Columbian art, a term that sometimes refers to only precontact art by Indigenous peoples of Latin America. Native scholars and allies are striving to have Indigenous art ...
Pre-Columbian Native American cuisine of the Southwest tribes. Pages in category "Pre-Columbian Southwest cuisine" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Inca cuisine originated in pre-Columbian times within the Inca civilization from the 13th to the 16th century. The Inca civilization stretched across many regions on the western coast of South America (specifically Peru ), and so there was a great diversity of unique plants and animals used for food.
Many pre-Columbian civilizations established permanent or urban settlements, agriculture, and complex societal hierarchies. In North America, indigenous cultures in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Middle Archaic period built complexes of multiple mounds, with several in Louisiana dated to 5600–5000 BP (3700 BC–3100 BC).
Mesoamerican is the adjective generally used to refer to that group of pre-Columbian cultures. This refers to an environmental area occupied by an assortment of ancient cultures that shared religious beliefs, art, architecture, and technology in the Americas for more than three thousand years.