midden
kitchen midden
shell heap
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The midden was the only place he could get any peace.

Each house, he continued, had a midden in front of it.

Following the walls around to the left, she came upon the middens.

No trace of any midden was found on the site.

Remains from this period are few and far between, often limited to middens.

They also left behind middens of shells along the coast.

In several places shell middens can be found on the island.

The Partisans would become part of the midden, he thought.

Native American middens and artifacts can be seen throughout the park.

No mark of it now, I'll guess, not even a midden.

An important distinction to make is between middens and nests.

One intriguing fact is that very few fish remains are found among their middens.

At present, the shell midden is divided into four parts.

I threw the rat out onto a midden behind the house.

It seemed to be a sort of midden, and the blood began to pulse in his ears.

There is evidence of Aboriginal occupation on the site, such as middens.

It was just what they called the midden now.

Even the few skeptical questions from students became occasions to pick through more middens of evidence.

Shell middens dating from over 15 000 years ago can be found along the coast.

Shell middens and fish traps are evidence of their activities.

There was a midden in one corner, but currently it looked very attractive.

The sky was lighter when they reached the opposite side of the midden.

Shell middens are found in coastal zones all over the world.

The work was the first stratigraphic analysis of midden in Georgia.

Great care was taken during the construction to protect Aboriginal middens and the general environment.

In the morning the Emperor woke with a pounding head and a mouth like the kitchen midden.

The presence of the bones in kitchen middens suggests that the species was hunted for food.

Accordingly the culture is less commonly named the Kitchen Midden.

Does the kitchen midden swell with pride when filled with undifferentiated garbage?

Five of the seven species in this genus are known only by skeletal remains, often found in association with human kitchen middens.

Something had carefully examined an exploring ship's kitchen midden to find out what sort of beings human beings might be.

Kitchen midden," Tobias gripped a fistful of her colored rags.

Only the Christians use the cloister as a kitchen midden for their unwanted daughters and widows."

I arrived to view the huge kitchen midden with a skeleton of a whale sitting atop it and the longhouse partly uncovered.

Kitchen middens.

A study of prehistoric kitchen middens suggests that hunting by humans may have contributed to the extinction of several bird species.

Modern scholarship concludes that it was not a burial mound, but a kitchen midden that had accumulated over centuries of use.

Indulgently, we let glavers root through our kitchen middens, poking under logs for insects.

Other finds have been dated to 7000 BC using radiocarbon dating of shells and debris from kitchen middens.

This period was associated with the discovery of "kitchen middens": enormous piles of waste produced by oyster-eating foragers.

Aboriginal kitchen middens at Tower Hill show 5000 year old Tasmanian Devil bones.

The coast is full of kitchen middens - piles of clamshells - so you know there was always plenty of food on the coast.

It is largely known from skeletal remains found in the kitchen middens of the original Polynesian inhabitants, the Moriori.

A kitchen midden of that date was unearthed during work on the harbour in 1879, and yielded flints, charcoal and a stone axe.

Behind every door was a smelly kitchen midden with everything from dirty rushes smelling of urine and rotting meat, to the contents of night pots.

Round its corners children pick up chipped arrow points of obsidian, scattered through it are kitchen middens and pits of old sweat-houses.

Ultimately, though, darker thoughts creep in regarding the pervasive depths of our cast-off material culture and how soon the planet will become a vast kitchen midden.

The intentionality of the formation of terra preta has not been demonstrated, rather it is believed to have formed under kitchen middens.

Notes Concerning Excavation Of Shell Mounds Or Kitchen Middens.

The best picture of Atlantic Period fauna comes from the kitchen middens of the Ertebølle culture of Denmark and others like it.

The tree indicated the top layers of the shell heap were more than 500 years old.

Cultivation of rice started, while there were shell heaps along the seashore.

A stump of Douglas fir, over six feet in diameter, stood on a shell heap eight feet below the surface which contained human remains.

They were once so abundant in California that old photographs show shell heaps rising to the rooflines of fishermen's shacks.

The Danish term kjökkenmöddings was first used to describe shell heaps and continues to be used by some researchers.

Some of the artifacts left by Indians who lived in the coastal areas were found in shell heaps scattered along the many inlets and stony beaches.

Campsites, village sites, stone quarry sites, rock shelters, shell heaps, and burial sites are among the archaeological treasures here.

Okinawa midden culture or shell heap culture is divided into the early shell heap period.

Deep shell heaps indicate American Indian encampments dating back 6,000 years in Acadia National Park, but prehistoric records are scanty.

While summering in Bar Harbor, Abbe was fascinated by the ancient Native American tools found in nearby shell heaps.

(Japanese: ) Ancient people living in this area left several shell heaps, in which a lot of shells, Jomon pottery, and pit houses were dug up.

(It is worth seeing the exhibition, "The Indian Shell Heap, Archeology of the Ruth Moore Site."

Through the work of the Cosgroves the Stalling Island Mound was found to be a shell heap rather than a major ceremonial construction like it was previously thought to be.

The oldest site is Hichmans' Shell Heap on Nevis, which is from the Archaic age and is dated to 790 to 520 BCE.

The size of midden shell heaps along the coast and the amount of cleared land attested to both a long period of occupation and a high degree of social organization among the people.

Shell heaps were found miles in length, with tree stumps six feet in diameter standing on nine feet of layers, of which each layer was only an inch or two in thickness.

Stephen's embarrassed hand moved over the shells heaped in the cold stone mortar: whelks and money cowries and leopard shells: and this, whorled as an emir's turban, and this, the scallop of saint James.

A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap) is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, vermin, shells, sherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation.

A year and a half ago, it looked as if Lake George, a blue jewel in the green Adirondacks, had dodged a biological bullet - the zebra mussel, an invasive European mollusk that is clogging pipes, crowding local aquatic life and turning beaches into toe-slicing shell heaps from Michigan to the Hudson River.

Evidence of their presence can be seen by the large shell mounds that still exist.

A large shell mound on the Little River marks where a village once stood.

The Satohama shell mound and museum is in the city.

Native Americans left behind shell mounds on the island following their oyster feasts.

One substantial shell mound was discovered early in the 20th century near what is now the east edge of town.

The lighthouse was built on an Indian shell mound (midden).

Several oyster shell mounds or "middens," one at least 40 feet long, have also been discovered on the site.

There are a few small Indian shell mounds there.

"Thousands of years ago, the original Floridians lived there and piled up a shell mound.

Spear points, arrowheads, bone heaps and shell mounds testify to their presence.

Shell mounds occur all along the coast.

Scientific excavation of shell mounds in Japan began in the 1920s.

Tsuken is home to numerous shell mounds, of which three have been excavated.

Relics of the Bronze Age, such as dolmens and shell mounds, were discovered here.

The most significant part of it is a large shell mound, formed from a mass of mollusk shells.

As part of decommissioning, the operator must deal with the shell mound that collects on the bottom surrounding the rig.

Shell mounds are also found in the islands and around the estuary of Saloum.

They left behind evidence of their existence in massive middens or shell mounds filled with discarded food byproducts.

Calusa shell mounds and remnants of their canal system are visible from the trail.

They used canoes for transportation, as evidenced by shell mounds in and around the Everglades that border canoe trails.

An adjacent shell mound is attached to the main ring by a shell causeway or ramp.

Shell mounds still exist today within the park, giving archaeologists and anthropologists evidence of the raw materials available to the indigenous people for tool construction.

It is also home to an oyster shell mound created by the Seewee Tribe.

Goodland is a 15-minute drive from the main resort area on a mangrove-lined road paved over shell mounds.

The only evidence of their existence within the park boundaries is a series of shell mounds that were built by the Calusa.