Scenarios about 'pre-columbian art'
Pre-Columbian art encompasses the visual arts produced by indigenous peoples of the Americas before European contact in 1492. These diverse artistic traditions include monumental architecture, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and metalwork from civilizations such as the Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Olmec. In alternate history scenarios, variations in pre-Columbian artistic development often reflect different trajectories of cultural exchange, technological innovation, or societal organization had colonization occurred differently or not at all.
What If Pre-Columbian Art Styles Merged More Extensively?
Exploring how indigenous American cultures might have developed if greater artistic exchange had occurred between Mesoamerican, Andean, and North American traditions, potentially creating hybrid aesthetic movements across the hemisphere.