Category:Pre-Columbian cultures
The term Pre-Columbian cultures are cultures of the Americas in the era before significant European influence. While technically referring to the era before Christopher Columbus, in practice the term usually includes indigenous cultures as they continued to develop until they were conquered or significantly influenced by Europeans, even if this happened decades or even centuries after Columbus first landed in 1492 CE.
The term Pre-Columbian is used especially often in discussions of the great indigenous civilizations of the New World, such as those of Mesoamerica (e.g. the Aztec and Maya) and the Andes (Inca, Moche, etc).
Categorizing
[edit]- The only articles that should be listed below are the ones about individual cultures / civilizations of the pre-Columbian era, not specific sub-topics on them or others relating generally to the pre-Columbian historical era.
- Instead: use subcategories for these, or create one if there's not the one you need
— for articles on the cultural areas that may be defined
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Subcategories
This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
Pages in category "Pre-Columbian cultures"
The following 161 pages are in this category, out of 161 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Calf Creek culture
- Calico Early Man Site
- Cañari
- Cannibalism in the Americas
- Capayán
- Capulí culture
- Cara culture
- Caral–Supe civilization
- Casma–Sechin culture
- Ceremonial stone landscape
- Chancay culture
- Chango people
- Chavín culture
- Chihuahua tradition
- Chimila people
- Chimú culture
- Chinchorro culture
- Chorrera culture
- Alternatives to the Clovis First theory
- Clovis culture
- Cody complex
- Comondú complex
- Cotocollao culture
- Cueva Fell
- Cunco people
- Cuyamaca complex
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- Machalilla culture
- Mamanteo
- Manasota culture
- Manteño-Huancavilca culture
- Maple Creek phase
- Mapuche
- Mapuche medicine
- Marajoara culture
- Marriage in the pre-Columbian Americas
- Mathematics of the Incas
- Mayaca people
- Metztitlan (altepetl)
- Template:Mississippian and related cultures
- Moche culture
- Mokaná
- Monte Verde
- Mound
- Mound Builders
- Mount Albion complex
- Muisca
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- Paiján culture
- Paleo-Arctic tradition
- Patayan
- Pauma Complex
- Pecos Classification
- Pehuenche
- Periodization of pre-Columbian Peru
- Phillips-Williams Fork Reservoir Site
- Piaroa people
- Picunche
- Pilauco Bajo
- Plainview point
- Plano cultures
- Pocra culture
- Point Peninsula complex
- Poya people
- List of pre-Columbian engineering projects in the Americas
- Promaucae
- Pumpkin Creek Site
- Purépecha Empire
- Puruhá