List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of Indigenous Americans

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.

An illustration of the Pre-Columbian abacus: the Nepohualtzintzin
Adobe buildings at Cuarenta Casas
Nazca monkey
Solid rubber ball
The Aztec Calendar Stone
One of the few remaining chinampas at Xochimilco
Detail of Nezahualcóyotl's dam to control water levels around Tenochtitlan
Children of Llullaillaco found at Llullaillaco in Salta Province (Argentina)
Chuño , a freeze dried potato
Two guinea pigs
Inside an igloo
Snow goggles
Llama overlooking Machu Picchu
Beaded moccasins originally from the estate of Chief Washakie , Wind River Indian Reservation ( Shoshone ), Wyoming, c. 1900
Maya observatory: El Caracol
The palace observation tower at Palenque
Teotihuacan incense burner lid
Quinoa at Lake Titicaca , Bolivia
A Lakota (Sioux) chanunpa pipestem, without the pipe bowl
Nez Perce tipi
An ulu in the western Arctic style
Apache wickiup, by Edward S. Curtis , 1903
The back of Stela C