pre-Incan
Americanadjective
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Wright invited Mr. Gesner to study with him at Taliesin, but Mr. Gesner boarded a freighter instead and headed to Ecuador, where he excavated pre-Incan artifacts.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022
A pre-Incan mummy has been discovered in Peru that could be up to 1,200 years old.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2021
Its name means equator in Spanish; Quito means “center of the world” in a pre-Incan language.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2011
Archaeologists studying extant murals, metalworks and ceramics could sketch an inexact portrait of the pre-Incan civilization that vanished around A.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ruins of the old Incan and older pre-Incan civilizations are come across, covered now with dense jungle, but their builders have disappeared.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield
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