This layer is a deposit of shell midden. Middens are essentially archaeological waste heaps. Middens also provide a wealth of information concerning climate and diet. Shell middens also decrease the ...

Archaeologists excavated this area, known as the Par-Tee shell midden site ... the small atlatls “provide some of the earliest archaeological evidence of Native American childhood in the ...

However, the digging of six large house foundation holes in 2019 revealed a deep, intact shell midden site outside the recorded site boundaries. It was here that in 2019 we conducted a community ...

A shell midden represents a place where people lived ... buried so quickly that they still have color on their surfaces. Archaeological sites of this depth and age are uncommon anywhere around ...