USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -These people lived in the time before the arrival of Columbus. The three most notable Pre-Columbian civilizations were those of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca.

Detailed explanation-2: -Subjects of art ranged from natural elements and animals to conceptual subjects like gods, demons, and sex. The Wari Empire of the Andes were also skillful creators of ceramics, especially creating pieces that venerated the Staff of God, the oldest deity to be visually recorded in the Americas.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pre-Columbian art encompasses the artefacts created by the indigenous peoples from the second millennium BC to the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, when the existing cultures were conquered by the Europeans. An important Teotihuacan statue, Pre-Classic, circa 300 BC-300 AD.

Detailed explanation-4: -The arts that were dominant in the pre-Columbian era-including weaving, pottery, metalworking, lapidary, featherwork, and mosaic (see Native American arts)-continued to be practiced unaltered in these areas in the postcolonial era.