Glossary: P Terms

Pueblo Bonito: an ancestral Puebloan site of the American Southwest. Development and decline of Pueblo Bonito and the Chaco Canyon regional system

Pulque is a beverage made by ancient Mesoamerican cultures from the fermented juice of the agave/

The term Puuc refers to both a region of the Yucatan ruled by the Maya and a Maya architectural style

The Prague-Korchak culture is a fifth through seventh century AD cultural group located in southern Poland, western Ukraine and north-eastern Slovakia.

The Pre-Dorset culture is a North American arctic culture of Greenland and Canada, first appearing there about 4500 years ago; the people probably arrived from Siberia.

The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (abbreviated PPN) is the name given to the people who domesticated the earliest plants and lived in farming communities in the Levant and Near East.

PreClovis culture is the term used by archaeologists to refer to the admittedly controversial evidence for human occupations in the Americas before 11,200 years before the present.

Predictive modelling involves figuring out what environmental and social variables are attractive reasons for people choosing to live in a particular space, and using that information to predict where archaeological sites might be.

Predmostí is an early modern human Upper Paleolithic site, located in the Moravian region of what is today the Czech Republic.

Prehistoric archaeology (as compared to historic archaeology) refers to the archaeological remains of cultures that are primarily pre-urban.

A priest, in the anthropological sense, is a full-time religious specialist who acts as a representative for a society's god.

The principle of limited possibilities is a rebuttal argument against hyper-diffusionist theory.

Processual Archaeology is the study of process, that is to say, investigations of the way humans do things, and the way things decay.

Archaeologists use the general term 'projectile point' to refer to any object affixed to a pole or stick of some kind, fashioned for use as a weapon

The Propinquity or Oasis Theory is a core concept in archaeology, referring to one of the main hypotheses about the origins of agriculture.

The archaeological site of Przeczyce is located in the lower Silesia region of Poland, and dates to the Bronze Age.

The Przeworsk Culture is considered by some archaeologists as one of the original cultures which led to the Slavic spread, between 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD.

Pseudo-archaeology is one of the burdens the romance of archaeology has dealt the profession.

The Ptolemies were members of the final dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs, members of a Greek family based in Alexandria.

The archaeological site of Pu'u Ali'i is located on the Kona coast of the island of Hawaii.

Public architecture is the word archaeologists use to refer to buildings constructed for public purposes.

The people of the Pucara culture lived in the southern Andes between about 100 BC-AD 100.

The Pueblo culture is the name archaeologists have given to the people of the American southwest who built stone and adobe houses between about 1300 and 1600 AD.

Puerto Escondido is a multicomponent archaeological site located on the Ulúa River near the Caribbean coast of northwestern Honduras, with the earliest to date use of cacao.

The Puglia or Apulian culture was an Iron and Bronze Age Greek colony in the boot heel region of southern Italy during the fifth century BC.

The Pungoteague Creek site is the name of a Colonial-period settlement on the eastern shore of the American state of Virginia.

The Punuk Culture (600-1200 AD) is the name given to the whaling society along the old Bering Sea of Alaska.

Pylos is a Mycenaean capital and palace, the traditional home of Nestor, located near the modern city of Pylos and the village of Khorsa.

The pyramid texts are among the oldest religious writings in the world, found carved on the walls of the Egyptian tombs at Saqqara, and likely dated to the late 5th or early 6th dynasty (about 2435 BC).

A pyramid is one of the earliest form of massive monumental architecture built by humans.

Public archaeology is the presentation of archaeological data to the public--but it is fraught with ethical considerations that make it a difficult and problematic study.

Anasazi site of Pueblo del Arroyo, Chaco Canyon great house of Pueblo del Arroyo

Learn more about Pueblo Alto a Chaco Canyon Site, Pueblo Alto, Great house site of Pueblo Alto

The Pyramid of the Magician at the Maya site of Uxmal, otherwise known as the House of the Dwarf, is one of the main monuments in the Yucatan peninsula