Sea-level rise has eroded beaches all over the Northwest. And some of these places include important archaeological sites.

View full size Photo by Harlan Kirgan/Press-Register Noel Stowe,retired director of the archaeological research laboratory at the University of South Alabama, hold an oyster shell at a shell midden in ...

Shell middens are piles of discarded shells and other domestic waste, like stone flakes and animal bones, left behind by prehistoric people. They're a classic staple of archaeology.

WHITE ROCK, CANADA—The Vancouver Sun reports that an ancient midden made up of shell, charcoal, and animal bones has been discovered in British Columbia. Joanne Charles, a council member of the ...

Previously, shell middens were hard to differentiate from natural shell deposits. But our examination of three shell middens between 7,300 and 4,500 years old—from the Gulf of Mexico , the United ...

The “Casco Bay Shell Midden Project: Carbon Isotope Analysis, Midden Vegetative Cover, and Public Outreach” builds on ongoing archaeological work on the shell middens of the area’s islands ...

The most vulnerable sites are shell middens: sometimes extensive, extremely dense layers of shell and other material that yield more insight than the layperson might imagine.

An archaeological site on Maryland’s Eastern Shore comprised of massive quantities of oysters harvested over 1,000 ... Torben Rick sifting through a large oyster shell midden along Maryland's ...

More than 20 University of North Florida archaeology students are spending their summer digging deep in the dirt at Cedar Point North within the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve.

Thomas Bennett is studying shell middens to highlight the impact of climate change on Casco Bay. ... Thomas Bennett went on his first archaeological dig on Yarmouth’s Moshier Island.

Examples of typical Asturian shell middens: (a) hanging patches of cemented remains in the El Andriz crag; scale bar = 1m (80 cm visible); (b) hanging ledge of the La Llosa crag; scale bar = 1m; (c) ...

Several shell midden sites were already recorded in and around Heron Bay – at Sue Wheeler’s and Peter Johnston’s house, under Sheila Rae’s house, and elsewhere in the bay. This is no surprise given ...