POCKOY ISLAND — Take a football field, reshape it from a rectangle into a circle, and you’ve got something about the same size as an ancient coastal shell midden. Two of these middens, about 4,300 ...
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 ...
"Within archaeological shell middens, we can find old food remains, discarded tools and ornaments, old living surfaces, and in some cultures, human burials,” says Dr Katherine Woo at the Australian ...
Surveys identified a series ofHolocene Later Stone Age shell middens along the westernmost extent of the Pinnacle Point estate near Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. Excavations of the Pinnacle ...
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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 ...
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 ...
The world's oceans hold their secrets close, including clues about how people lived tens of thousands of years ago. For a large portion of humanity's existence, sea levels were significantly lower (up ...