I may have seen it used before, but pre-Colombian almost always makes more sense. And even that label is still defining things through colonizer terms rather than indigenous ones.
I think there's decent evidence of trade between the West Coast of the Americas and island cultures way out in the Pacific long before European contact
I may have seen it used before, but pre-Colombian almost always makes more sense. And even that label is still defining things through colonizer terms rather than indigenous ones.
Pre-(transoceanic) contact makes a lot of sense because it really deeply transformed everything.
I think there's decent evidence of trade between the West Coast of the Americas and island cultures way out in the Pacific long before European contact