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  2. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Glazes are seldom used by indigenous American ceramic artists. Grease can be rubbed onto the pot as well. [2] Prior to contact, pottery was usually open-air fired or pit fired; precontact Indigenous peoples of Mexico used kilns extensively. Today many Native American ceramic artists use kilns. In pit-firing, the pot is placed in a shallow pit ...

  3. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America - Wikipedia

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    Great Lake artifacts found in the Eastern Woodlands of North America seem to indicate there were widespread trading networks by 1000 BC. Progressively the usage of copper for tools decreases with more jewelry and adornments being found. This is believed to be indicative of social changes to a more hierarchical society. [3]

  4. List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of ...

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    Alcoholic beverages - Several fermented beverages were produced by Native Americans, such as Pulque, Tepache, Agave wine and Cauim. Some of these beverages have gained popularity in modern times, particularly in Mexico. [2] Almanacs – Almanacs were invented independently by the Maya peoples. Their culture arose, and presumably began using ...

  5. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    The Native Americans of California have used different mediums and forms for their traditional designs found in artifacts that express their history and culture. Some traditional art forms and archaeological evidence include basketry, painted pictographs and petroglyphs found on the walls in the caves, and effigy figurines.

  6. Pueblo pottery - Wikipedia

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    [62] Native American modern and contemporary art, and pueblo pottery and other "crafts" face a kind of double jeopardy because in the past not only have "craft-based media" been excluded from American art history, the field has frequently marginalized Native American art and the artists that make these works, relinquishing them to the realms of ...

  7. Metate - Wikipedia

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    A native American grinder stone tool or 'metate' from Central Mexico. Metate and mano. The earliest traditions of stone sculpture in Costa Rica, including ceremonial metate, began in late Period IV (A.D. 1–500). Metate from the Nicoya/Guanacaste region have longitudinally curved and rimless plates.

  8. Bird stone - Wikipedia

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    A new theory recently arising from an amateur archaeologist focused on Native American fiber processing, is the bird stone was a tool used for mat-making and weaving. [citation needed] Many stones have been found near waterways and swamp areas where reeds grow, these areas being where materials for mat-making were collected and processed. The ...

  9. Old Copper complex - Wikipedia

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    Native copper nugget from glacial drift, Ontonagon County, Michigan. An example of the raw material worked by the people of the Old Copper Complex. The Old Copper complex or Old Copper culture is an archaeological culture from the Archaic period of North America's Great Lakes region. Artifacts from some of these sites have been dated from 6500 ...

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