The High Point Shell Midden (Smithsonian trinomial: 35CU215) is a prehistoric archeological site located in Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor near...

A midden is an old dump for domestic waste. It may consist of animal bones, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially...

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...

metres (13 ft) of shell were deposited in 150 years, and the ring is not just a midden. There is no evidence of human use of the shell ring after 50 BCE...

South Carolina. Spanish Mount is an oyster-clam shell midden, about 27 meters long and 3 meters high. The site is bordered by water and marsh on three...

shell species and stone artefacts inclusive of cores and secondarily worked flakes located on the lower slopes of Hill 60 at Boilers Point A midden site...

Shell rings are archaeological sites with curved shell middens completely or partially surrounding a clear space. The rings were sited next to estuaries...

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: 35-CU-215, High Point Shell Midden (redacted PDF), archived (PDF) from the original on May 16, 2021...

once-massive archaeological shell midden deposit (dark, highly organic soil, temple and burial ground containing a high concentration of human food waste...

Santina Horseshoe - Possible shell ring. West Pass - Possible shell ring (crescent shaped midden) with associated shell works. Deer Island (8LV75) - Deptford...

archaeological investigation of the shell middens at both Bass Point and along the NSW coastline. These shell middens are found in coastal environments...

restoration efforts have increased. Middens testify to the prehistoric importance of oysters as food, with some middens in New South Wales, Australia, dated...

Shell works are large and complex assemblages of shell found in southwest Florida. Shell works include mounds and other deposits, with features described...

the island along the western side. A 9-metre-tall (30-foot) conical shell midden with ramps is located on the west side of the island towards the southern...

mound was 27.4 m by 1.8 - 2.5 m high and contained both Glades Plain and Weeden Island pottery. In the 1950s the shell midden was excavated by John Goggin...

historic spots and tourist landmarks include the Lal-lo and Gattaran Shell Middens, Magapit Protected Landscape, Maduppaper Caves, the Mapaso Hot Spring...

to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It is the largest shell midden on the mainland United States, with an approximate height of 50 feet...

Applecross. A small number of shell middens were known as rare traces of Mesolithic settlement when a rock shelter and shell midden at Sand, Applecross on the...

(village) Maramarahi near Thames, NZ where they were explaining to me what a shell midden was. They said this is what your people were eating hundreds of years...

Green River. This area is known as the "shell mound region" because of the large shell middens, or deposits of shell that were disposed of by the indigenous...

human and dog burials were documented in shell midden contexts. The Okhotsk may therefore have regarded shell middens similarly, or even passed on this tradition...

Butler County, this shell midden has been declared a historic site because of its archaeological value. The Carlson Annis Shell Mound sits on the eastern...

and the distinctive shells form middens near their settlements. Like other members of Veneridae, this species has a chalky shell, the umbo being anterior...

to the pearl beds, as well as an extensive pearl shell midden thought to contain millions of shells. Dated to the late C6th or early C7th CE both using...

County listings at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs Randell Research Center Learn more about shell mounds at Historic Spanish Point...

Atchafalaya River. It consists of several earthen platform mounds and a shell midden situated around a central plaza. The site was visited by Clarence Bloomfield...

discovery of shell middens in association with tools referred to by researchers as "turban crackers". Evidence from several late Holocene middens suggest that...

history is defined by midden or shell heap culture and is divided into Early, Middle, and Late Shell Mound periods. The Early Shell Mound period was a hunter-gatherer...

Accurate dates were obtained from moa egg fragments found in grave and midden sites. Buried with the skeletons were moa bone reel necklaces, whole moa...

Evidence of shell middens, burials and similar artifacts in previous excavations were found. Dating of the cultural deposits below the shell midden placed...