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In 1992 the world commemorated the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the New World. However, this world was neither new nor was it discovered for the first time by Columbus. The Americans have been settled for thousands of years and the high civilizations of Mesoamerica and the tropical Andes and their neighbouring Pacific coast date back to a period long before the Christian calendar. Many of the rich and diversified cultural testimonies were destroyed, and the cultural heritage and influence of the past vanished in part or was forgotten. But in many instances some cultural traits were preserved or modified, in other cases they were overlaid by successive cultures.
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Borsdorf, A., Stadel, C. (2015). The Cultural Development of the Andes. In: The Andes. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03530-7_4
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