By Claudio Cavatrunci
Pre-Columbian artwork is the visible arts of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, North, important, and South Americas till the overdue fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, and the period of time marked by way of Christopher Columbus' arrival within the Americas.
Pre-Columbian artwork thrived in the course of the Americas from at the very least, 13,000 BCE to 1500 CE. Many Pre-Columbian cultures didn't have writing structures, so visible paintings expressed cosmologies, global perspectives, faith, and philosophy of those cultures, in addition to serving as mnenomic devices.
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