Glossary Entries between Phalaborwa and Pitted Ware Culture

Phaistos Disk
The Phaistos Disk is the name given to a pottery disk, both sides impressed with mysterious symbols and said to have been discovered by Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier at the Minoan palace of Phaistos on Crete.

Phalaborwa (South Africa)
The archaeological complex of Phalaborwa consists of a series of iron and copper mining sites dated the early parts of the second millennium AD.

Phoenicia
Canaan (also called Phoenicia) is the name of a Bronze Age culture and country in what is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon.

Phu Lon Complex
The Phu Lon complex is a copper mining and smelting Bronze Age culture on the Mekong River about 1500 BC.

Phung Nguyen Complex
The Bronze Age people of the Phung Nguyen culture of Vietnam were wet rice farmers, who lived in sedentary villages on the Red River valley.

Piazza dei Cavalieri Blacksmith Shop
The Piazza dei Cavalieri Blacksmith Shop is a 12th century iron, bronze, copper and lead-working shop discovered in the piazza in Pisa in 2008.

Piedmont Tradition
The Piedmont Tradition is the name given to artifacts recovered from specific Late Archaic sites in the Piedmont Mountains of the eastern United States.

Pikillaqta (Peru)
The Peruvian site of Pikillaqta was a provincial capital of the Wari empire.

Piklihal (India)
The archaeological site of Piklihal is a neolithic period site in Raichur District, India.

Pine Nuts
Evidence that the seeds from several species of pine trees (called pine nuts, pinon or pinyon nuts) exists for many different cultures in the American Great Basin and California, for at least 7500 years.

Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man is what scholars called the jumble of bones deliberately set to embarrass the British paleontological establishment in the first half of the 20th century

Piney Branch (USA)
The Piney Branch site is a paleoindian archaeological site, located in Washington, DC.

Pinnacle Point [PP13B] (South Africa)
PP13B is the scientific designation for a sea cave in the coastal cliffs at Pinnacle Point near Mossel Bay, South Africa, where very early evidence for modern human behaviors such as the use of pigment have been identified.

Pinniped
A pinniped is a marine mammal, such as a seal or sea lion.

Pinto Culture
The Pinto culture is the name archaeologists have given to the people who were living along the Colorado River during the Archaic period.

Pipestone - Metamorphic Raw Material for Sacred and Elite Artifacts
Pipestone is a generic term for one of at least a dozen types of metamorphic rock, which was used by Native American groups to carve magnificent sculptured objects.

Pit Grave Culture
The Pit Grave Culture is the relatively unimaginative name given to a Bronze Age culture of the 4th-3rd millennia BC in eastern Europe.

Pit House
A pit house (also spelled pithouse) is a type of dwelling that was excavated partly into the earth, from a few inches to more than three feet.

Pitted Ware Culture: Hunter Gatherers of Scandinavia
The Pitted Ware Culture is the name given to a Neolithic period people living in Scandinavia in the 3rd millennia BC.