We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the world's oyster reefs are gone. Many fisheries are collapsing, and those in ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. From left, University of Southern Maine intern Grayson Jones of Brunswick, ...

Located in the archipelago of Fiji, this small island was apparently made from sea shells discarded by a 1,200-year-old culture.

The University of Maine’s Midden Minder program, which has recently secured more funding, is garnering public support through talks along the seacoast. These shell midden deposits are studied by the ...

The project: a tribal perspective / Judy Wright -- The project: an archaeological perspective / Julie K. Stein -- Ethnographic background / LLyn De Danaan -- Field and laboratory methods and ...

Archaeological sites dot the Treasure Coast from Vero Man to Old Fort Park. Not even Brightline is immune from having to work around sites. Despite protections, some sites — both known and not yet ...

As global oyster populations decline and fisheries collapse, archaeologists may be able to inform effective management with perspectives of human-oyster connections stretching back millennia. As ...