Whaleback Shell Midden is a shell midden, or dump, consisting primarily of oyster shells located on the east side of the Damariscotta River in Maine, United...
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A midden is an old dump for domestic waste. It may consist of animal bones, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially...
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Oyster (section Shell recycling)
restoration efforts have increased. Middens testify to the prehistoric importance of oysters as food, with some middens in New South Wales, Australia, dated...
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includes eleven middens in all, including the well-known Whaleback Shell Midden and the Glidden Midden, which is the largest shell midden in the northeastern...
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left behind 2,500-year-old oyster shell middens along the banks of the Damariscotta River. The Whaleback Shell Midden is now a state historic site. The...
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The Damariscotta River near the Whaleback Shell Midden State Historic Site...
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alewives to increase into the millions along the Damariscotta. Whaleback Shell Midden Damariscotta River Cruises Damariscotta River Association Downtown...
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plaque commemorating the site of the Storer Garrison Whaleback Shell Midden Lincoln Damariscotta 11 4.5 Oyster shell midden on the Damariscotta River...
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Indian Mound Park (Dauphin Island, Alabama) (category Shell middens in the United States)
Mound State Archeological Site Mound Key Archeological State Park Whaleback Shell Midden "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic...
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Shell Heaps) Damariscotta Includes the Whaleback Shell Midden (now a state historic site) and the Glidden Shell Midden. 34 Damariscotta Shell Midden Historic...
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Dundee's poetic heritage is represented by the 2013 poetry anthology Whaleback City edited by W. N. Herbert and Andy Jackson (Dundee University Press)...
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discovery of America Pre-Columbian theories Sea Peoples Shipbuilding Shell middens Ship burial Tacking Thalassocracy Underwater archaeology Underwater...
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Khoekhoen tribe who collected seafood from the shores and deposited the shells in middens along the coast which indicate usage over some 10 000 years. Bartolomeu...
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show this archaeological site has served various functions including shell midden and probably village over a history spanning 7000 to 8000 years. It was...
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