Gold Lime Container used to hold Powdered Lime for ritual use. Lime was used to enhance contemplation in prayer. From Quimbaya, Colombia, South America, circa 900-1100 AD. Indigenous people inhabited the territory that is now Colombia by 12,500 BCE. Beginning in the 1st millennium BCE, groups of Amerindians including the Muisca, Quimbaya, and Tairona, traded gold until the Spanish conquest in the 15th -16th century.