The Indian midden was, initially, a trash heap. As early as 5,000 B.C., Indians were living around the St. Johns River. When they discovered enough food to allow them to remain in one place, they b… ...

Trash pits or "middens" tell us much about the daily life of our forebears, according to archaeologists. Peabody Museum is staging a series of lectures about the importance of trash to archaeology.

SANTA FE, N.M. – Garbage mounds ... new research indicates that the real trigger for island development might have been middens, or trash piles left behind from human settlements that date to ...

Making Middens. by Caleb Rounds | Jan 22, 2015. Most of us in this country generate a lot of trash. I spend a lot of time feeling guilty about it, but it turns out that doesn’t actually decrease my ...

The trash piles - also called shell middens - aren't glamorous. But they're useful, he said, as researchers try to piece together what life was like for the Floridians who were here before the ...

1. Dawn of the dump: The oldest trash heaps, called middens, are in South Africa and contain shells roughly 140,000 years old. Middens—which may also include bones, charcoal, feces, and pottery shards ...

Rubbish heaped into mounds known as middens by early settlers of the area 5,000 years ago helped give rise to 'tree islands', ... How humans dumping trash in the Everglades have HELPED the ...

Last month there was a story in the newspaper about the state's spending $200,000 to study litter. A few days later there was a cartoon by Don Addis on the same subject. Now that I have stopped ...

Ancient trash dumps, or middens, such as this one at Harappa in Pakistan, are rich hunting grounds for archaeologists. HARP (Harappa Archaeological Research Project) Story highlights.