Glossary Entries between Plains Archaic and Poverty Point

The history of potato domestication begins in South America and spreads throughout the world.

Evidence for pre-columbian cultural contact between the Chumash of California's coast and Polynesian seafarers is growing, but still in doubt.

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.

The Plano culture is the name given to Late Paleoindian people living in the North American continent between 10000-8000 years ago.

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 is the study of plantation life, usually in the American southeast.

The Pleistocene epoch is that little snippet of geological history between 1.8 million years to 11,000 years ago.

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.

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 is an eneolithic tell site in northeastern Bulgaria.

Pohanska is a lordly dwelling of the 9th century AD located near Brno, in the Czech Republic.

The pomegranate is a native of the near east, specifically Iran, northeastern Turkey and the region of the Caspian sea

The Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 76 AD: But you already knew that, didn't you?

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.

The Pont du Gard is an aqueduct built by the Romans between 40 and 60 BC, to take public water across the Gard river.

Pontnewydd Cave is a middle paleolithic cave site in North Wales.

Portable art refers to objects carved during the Upper Paleolithic period of prehistory that can be moved, in contrast to cave art.

Post-modernism is a philosophical movement that touches on almost all forms of science and culture.

Post-Processual Archaeology is, more than anything else, a critique of processual archaeology.

The potassium-argon method of dating artifacts and sites, like radiocarbon dating, relies on measuring radioactive emissions.

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.

Poverty Point is a large, C-shaped, 3500-year-old earthwork located on the Maçon Ridge in the Mississippi River trench in northeast Louisiana.

Aztec merchants, Pochteca refer to this page to learn more about the economic aorganization of Aztec society

the prehistoric site of Port au Choix, Newfoundland, Canada. Port au Choix is an example of Maritime Archaic site in North America. Learn more about the prehistory of Canada