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  • adjective Alternative form of pre-Columbian.

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  • I recently ran across a link (which I now can't find, but which was probably over here someplace) to the essay, "A Nostalgia for Mud," by Esther Pasztory, in the Precolumbian Art Research Institute Newsletter.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • Orban is supposedly a culture descended from Precolumbian Aztecs.

    Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Learning Curve' (S03E05) 2009

  • I recently ran across a link (which I now can't find, but which was probably over here someplace) to the essay, "A Nostalgia for Mud," by Esther Pasztory, in the Precolumbian Art Research Institute Newsletter.

    Avatar--An Addendum 2010

  • Description: The planet Orban, with Precolumbian Teotihuacan-culture antecedents and Aztec type pyramids, has made impressive scientific progress, and brings Sam a naquadah reactor to study; when she demands an instructor, Orban official Kalan surprises SG-1 by saying that he does not know what an instructor is, but 11 year-old Merrin stays on base to teach Carter.

    Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Learning Curve' (S03E05) 2009

  • The question is, who spun the ridiculous fancy that they were Precolumbian and demonstrated that the Incas lived with dinosaurs?

    Cautionary tales from the front lines of science - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Pages 391-453 in D.L. Lentz, editor, Imperfect Balance: Landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas.

    Maranhão Babaçu forests 2008

  • Pages 391-453 in D.L. Lentz, editor, Imperfect Balance: Landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas.

    Marajó varzea 2008

  • Pages 391-453 in D.L. Lentz, editor, Imperfect Balance: Landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas.

    Tepuis 2008

  • Pages 391-453 in D.L. Lentz, editor, Imperfect balance: Landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas.

    Iquitos varzea 2008

  • Pages 391-453 in D.L. Lentz, editor, Imperfect Balance: Landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas.

    Gurupa varzea 2008

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