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Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika
The Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Greece, inscribed in 1988, comprising fifteen Early Christian and Byzantine monuments including churches and city walls.
Paleochristian basilica at Vravrona
Paleochristian basilica at Vravrona (Βραυρώνα), an early Christian basilica about 500 m west of the ancient Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron, Attica, built in the 5th-6th century AD with spoliated sanctuary material.
Paleochristian basilica, Illa del Rei
The Paleochristian basilica, Illa del Rei is a ruined early Christian church of the late 5th or 6th century on Illa del Rei island in Menorca's Port of Mahón.
Paleoclimate proxy
A paleoclimate proxy is a measurable property of a natural archive, such as ice cores, tree rings, or corals, that stands in for climate measurements made before instruments existed.
Paleoclimatology
Paleoclimatology, the study of Earth's ancient climate history, reconstructs conditions before instrumental records by reading natural archives such as tree rings, corals, ice cores, and sediments.
Paleoconservatism
Paleoconservatism, coined by Paul Gottfried and Thomas Fleming in the mid-1980s, is an American right-wing movement opposing neoconservatism, rooted in the Old Right, associated with Sam Francis and Pat Buchanan's America First campaigns, and influential on Trump-era nationalism.
Paleogene
The Paleogene Period is the first period of the Cenozoic Era, spanning 66 to 23 million years ago and divided into the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs.
Paleogene bivalves
Paleogene bivalves are the fossil clams, oysters, and scallops that lived from the end-Cretaceous mass extinction to the threshold of the Neogene, recording recovery and diversification.
Paleogeography of the India–Asia collision system
The paleogeography of the India–Asia collision system reconstructs the continents and oceans that preceded India's collision with Asia, which closed the Neo-Tethys Ocean and built the Himalayas.
Paleointensity
Paleointensity is the study of Earth's ancient magnetic field strength, recovered from rocks and fired clays by comparing their natural magnetization with one induced in a known laboratory field.
Paleolibertarianism
Paleolibertarianism, also called the paleo strategy, is a right-libertarian doctrine and strategy from Murray Rothbard and Lew Rockwell, early 1990s, combining libertarian anti-statism with conservative culture and a paleoconservative alliance around Pat Buchanan.
Paleolimnology
Paleolimnology is the study of lake and wetland sediments, using physical, chemical, and biological proxies in dated sediment cores to reconstruct past lake, catchment, and climate conditions over decades to millennia.
Paleolinguistics
Paleolinguistics, or linguistic paleontology (a term first used by Adolphe Pictet in 1859), studies language in the remote past before writing: reconstructing prehistoric protolanguages with the comparative method, inferring prehistoric speakers' cultures and homelands, and probing early language evolution, with a practical reconstruction depth of about 10,000 years.
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), from ~2.6 million years ago to ~10,500 years ago, spans Oldowan and Acheulean tools, Middle Paleolithic prepared cores, and Upper Paleolithic blades, art, and cumulative culture.
Paleolithic diet
The Paleolithic diet, also called the paleo or Stone-Age diet, permits foods advocates say humans ate before agriculture, such as meat, fish, fruits, and vegetables, while excluding grains, legumes, dairy, and added sugar.
Paleomagnetism
Paleomagnetism is the study of the Earth's past magnetic field, recorded in rocks, sediments, and fired materials; it underpins the geomagnetic polarity timescale and continental reconstructions.
Paleomalacology
Paleomalacology is the study of fossil molluscs and their shells, a field with a record stretching back about 530 million years and collections numbering in the millions of specimens.
Paleontology
Paleontology, the study of fossils (also palaeontology), examines remains of life preserved at least 10,000 years ago, using taphonomy, biostratigraphy, and radiometric dating to reconstruct evolution, with applications in hydrocarbon exploration and museum-based research.
Paleoskala
Paleoskala (Παλαιόσκαλα, Prehistoric settlement of Palaioskala) is a prehistoric archaeological site near Lake Karla, ancient Boebeis Lake, in the Municipality of Agia, Thessaly, Greece; Pleiades place 763750643, Wikidata Q38282355, coordinates 39.53666 N, 22.78779 E.
Paleosol
A paleosol is a fossil soil that formed on a landscape of the past and is preserved in the geological record; its study is called paleopedology, and buried soils define geosols in stratigraphy.
Paleostress analysis
Paleostress analysis is a branch of structural geology that reconstructs past stress fields from deformation structures, most commonly fault-slip data and calcite twins, using inversion methods developed since the 1970s.
Paleosuchus palpebrosus
Paleosuchus palpebrosus, Cuvier's dwarf caiman, is the smallest living crocodilian, a South American alligatorid from the Orinoco and Amazon basins, IUCN Least Concern, CITES Appendix II, tolerating cool 6 °C waters.
Paleothermometer
Paleothermometer: a measurable proxy, such as foraminiferal δ18O, Mg/Ca, or carbonate clumped isotopes (Δ47), used to reconstruct past temperatures; founded on Urey's oxygen isotope method and Emiliani's deep-sea cores.
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic Era, spanning 541 to 251.9 million years ago, saw fish diversify and life colonize land, ending with the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
Paleozoic and extinct brittle stars
Paleozoic and extinct brittle stars are fossil ophiuroids known mostly from dissociated skeletal plates, tracing back to the Early Ordovician about 480 million years ago.
Paleozoic gastropods
Paleozoic gastropods are the snails that lived, diversified, and mostly died out from the first Lower Cambrian shells to the end-Permian mass extinction about 252 million years ago.
Paleozoic spiders and early Araneae
Paleozoic spiders and early Araneae cover the oldest fossil spiders, including Arthrolycosa from about 315 million years ago, and proto-spiders like Attercopus, which secreted silk but lacked true spinnerets.
Palermo
Palermo is a 1992 Walter Ziser board game from Piatnik, a Spiel des Jahres 1992 recommended title, in which players tile-build a Sicilian city then race gangsters to collect income; distinct from the Mafia party game also called Palermo.
Palermo Shooting
Palermo Shooting is a 2008 drama by Wim Wenders, in competition at Cannes, starring Campino as a Düsseldorf photographer who flees to Palermo, meets Giovanna Mezzogiorno's restorer, and is pursued by Dennis Hopper's Death.
Palermo Stone
The Palermo Stone is a black basalt stela fragment bearing the oldest surviving royal annals of ancient Egypt, recording kings from predynastic times to the mid Fifth Dynasty, now kept in Palermo, Sicily.