P

pagus, 170

Palasgi, 160

paleobotanists, 16

paleogeologists, 15

Paleolithic period, 11 , 18 , 123 ;

fecundity/ regeneration symbols of, 47 -48;

human migrations during, 19

Papago Indians (Arizona), 87

passage, 197 -99

patriarchies, 49

pax romana, 171

petrol refineries, 116 , 117 , 119 -20

Pheonicians, 137 , 160

philosophy, evolution of, 142

pictographs:

vs. alphabets, 49 ;

Cuttlefish of Lufang, 48 ;

on Mailhacien pottery, 84 , 85 ,87 -91, 88;

U -shaped, 45 -48, 46,49 -50

pilgrimages, 188 -89

Pindar, 177

place, value of, 198

place names. See toponyms

Plato, 142

Pleiades, 147 , 155

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia,163 , 171 -72, 213

Plutarch, 160

poem, as high-energy construct, 141

pollen, fossilized, 16

pollution, 117 -18

Polybius, 146 ;

Historiae, 147 -48, 149 , 150 , 151 , 152 -53

Pont Flavien, 194 -99, 195-96,231 n.1

portraiture, 78

Pradenne, Vayson de, 65 -68

prayer, 192 -93

predation to production, 75

Proctor, Dennis, 155

Prometheus, 76

Provençal language, 113

Provence:

deposit layers in, 3 ;

game in, 27 -28;

historians in, 4 ;

icy ground in, 61 ;

poignancy of, 5 ;

tombs in, 61 (see also tombs);

wind in, 5 , 11

Provincia Romana, 115

Ptolemy, 171

Py, Michel, 86 , 89 , 97 -98, 99