Word: columbian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coca plant is part of the cultural fabric of the northern Andes. Inca nobility chewed the plant, as suggested by the discovery of pre-Columbian statues with bulging cheeks--presumably crammed with coca leaves. The same practice was observed by the explorer Amerigo Vespucci in what is now northern Venezuela during his first voyage around the world...
These classes would cover topics that Fine Arts 13 does not have time to go into, Levine said, ticking off primitive art, pre-Columbian art, and modern art forms such as photography and cinema...
...After I became interested in Pre-Columbian artifacts at a distance, I started to read technical journals on the subject," Stuart says. "I didn't understand them at all at first, but I taught myself...
After learning to decipher, Stuart published his first paper, entitled "Some Thoughts on Certain Occurrences of the T565 Glyph Element at Palenque" when he was 14. Since then, he has published two other papers and presented several more at conferences of Pre-Columbian scholars and is expecting to finish his first book, on Mayan hieroglyphics, by the end of the year...
Acquired by Harvard in 1940, Dumbarton Oaks is a research center devoted to the study of Byzantine and Medieval Humanities, Pre-Columbian Art, and Landscape Architecture. Formerly a private estate, the building housed the first meeting of the United Nations...