Glossary Entries between Plains Archaic and Poverty Point
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Potato History
The history of potato domestication begins in South America and spreads throughout the world.
Polynesian and Chumash Contacts
Evidence for pre-columbian cultural contact between the Chumash of California's coast and Polynesian seafarers is growing, but still in doubt.
Plains Archaic
The Plains Archaic is the name archaeologists have given to the hunter-gatherers who lived in the American plains between about 6000 BC and AD 500.
Plano Culture
The Plano culture is the name given to Late Paleoindian people living in the North American continent between 10000-8000 years ago.
Plant Residues in Archaeology
A plant residue is the term used by archaeologists to refer to the microscopic parts of sticky bits left over from either processing or cooking vegetal matter.
Plantation Archaeology
Plantation archaeology is the study of plantation life, usually in the American southeast.
Pleistocene Epoch
The Pleistocene epoch is that little snippet of geological history between 1.8 million years to 11,000 years ago.
Plimouth Plantation (USA)
The Plimouth Plantation is the name given to the living history farm in the location of the archaeological site, remnants of a 17th century English colony.
Plum Piece (Lesser Antilles)
The archaeological site called Plum Piece is an aceramic shell midden site on tiny Saba Island in the northern Lesser Antilles east of Puerto Rico.
Podgoritsa (Bulgaria)
Podgoritsa is an eneolithic tell site in northeastern Bulgaria.
Pohanska (Czech Republic)
Pohanska is a lordly dwelling of the 9th century AD located near Brno, in the Czech Republic.
Popol Vuh
The Popol Vuh is often called the Bible of the Maya, and its narration tells the story of two of the most important myths of the Maya.
Pompeii (Italy)
The Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 76 AD: But you already knew that, didn't you?
Pottery
The term ceramics or pottery refers to artifacts made of heated earth, including storage and cooking vessels, building material such as adobe brick, and occasionally tools and furniture.
Pont du Gard (France)
The Pont du Gard is an aqueduct built by the Romans between 40 and 60 BC, to take public water across the Gard river.
Post-Processual Archaeology
Post-Processual Archaeology is, more than anything else, a critique of processual archaeology.
Portable Art
Portable art refers to objects carved during the Upper Paleolithic period of prehistory that can be moved, in contrast to cave art.
Post Modernism in Archaeology
Post-modernism is a philosophical movement that touches on almost all forms of science and culture.
Potassium-Argon Dating
The potassium-argon method of dating artifacts and sites, like radiocarbon dating, relies on measuring radioactive emissions.
Poverty Point (USA)
Poverty Point is the name of an enormous C-shaped earthwork which was built on the Maçon Ridge in the Mississippi River trench in northeast Louisiana some 5500 years ago.
Aztec Merchants: the Pochteca
Aztec merchants, Pochteca refer to this page to learn more about the economic aorganization of Aztec society