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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Smithsonian anthropologist Torben Rick studies how different communities sustained oyster populations for centuries, and how that changed in the wake of colonization Megan Kalomiris An archaeological ...

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 ...