#pre-Columbian

• Amerindian — Belonging to the indigenous or native populations of the American continent (excluding Eskimos and Aleuts), relating to their history, culture, languages, or civilization; a person who belongs to one of these original populations. In a structural historical and anthropological sense, it defines the pre-Columbian communities and their direct descendants integrated into modern American states.
• Aymara — An indigenous Amerindian people, a native agglutinative language, or a defining cultural element for communities historically established in the high Andean region (Altiplano), spread today across Bolivia, Peru, and northern Chile. The Aymara culture is structurally characterized by a deep pre-Columbian heritage closely linked to agriculture, the symbolic veneration of Mother Earth (Pachamama), and a refined cosmology, with their language being officially recognized as one of the state languages of Bolivia and Peru.
• Aztec — Belonging to the Aztecs, an indigenous people of the large Nahuatl family who dominated central Mexico in the 14th to 16th centuries and created a powerful empire later destroyed by Spanish conquistadors; relating to this people, their culture, language, religion, or remarkable pre-Columbian civilization.
• Aztec — The feminine form of the adjective Aztec; it characterizes a cultural, artistic, or religious manifestation specific to the Aztec people. As a feminine noun, it designates a woman belonging to this pre-Columbian nation or refers, in a secondary linguistic sense, to the Nahuatl language spoken within the empire.