Glossary Entries between Phalaborwa and Pitted Ware Culture

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The perpetrators of the infamous Piltdown hoax of the early 20th century have never been satisfactorily identified.

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

PP13B is the scientific designation for a sea cave in the coastal cliffs at Pinnacle Point near Mossel Bay, South Africa.

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

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

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

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.

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