page_title: List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans
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hierarchical_section_title: List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans / G
context_page_description: This is an alphabetic list of Pre-columbian achievements in science and technology made by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas during the 15,000 years that they have inhabited the Americas.
context_section_description: Green bean – this, as well as other varieties, were first farmed in South America and migrated to North America where it was adopted by Europeans.
  Guinea pigs – indigenous South Americans had domesticated the guinea pig as a food source around 9000 to 6000 BCE. The Inca people took guinea pig farming to new heights.
caption: Two guinea pigs
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