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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Look up midden or middens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Midden is an old dump for domestic waste associated with past human occupation. Midden may also...
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Pack rat (redirect from Packrat midden)
than 5%) live beyond 3 years of age. A pack rat midden is a debris pile constructed by a woodrat. A midden may preserve the materials incorporated into it...
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The Marpole Midden, also known by archaeologists as the Great Fraser Midden or Eburne site, is a 4000-year-old midden near the mouth of the Fraser River...
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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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Dung middens, also known as dung hills, are piles of dung that mammals periodically return to and build up. They are used as a form of territorial marker...
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Midden-Zeeland Airport (ICAO: EHMZ), also known as Zeeland Airport, is an airport located 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) east northeast of Middelburg, Zeeland,...
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Midden-Delfland (Dutch: [ˌmɪdə(n)ˈdɛl(ə)flɑnt] ) is a municipality (gemeente) in the Westland region in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands...
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The privy midden (also midden closet) was a toilet system that consisted of a privy (outhouse) associated with a midden (or middenstead, ie a dump for...
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A rock hyrax midden is a stratified accumulation of fecal pellets and a brown amber-like a urinary product known as hyraceum excreted by the rock hyrax...
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Drèents dialects (redirect from Midden-Drèents)
Zuudoost-Veen-Drèents Midden-Drèents Zuudwest-Noord-Drèents (Also see Stellingwarfs) Zuudwest-Zuud-Drèents It also can be divided into Midden-Drents and Zuid-Drents...
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Minim Island Shell Midden (38GE46) is a historic midden and archaeological site located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. The site consists...
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Midden-Drenthe (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌmɪdə(n) ˈdrɛntə] ) is a municipality in the northeastern Netherlands. The municipality was created in 1998, in a...
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Comer's Midden Comer's Midden was a 1916 archaeological excavation site near Thule (modern Qaanaaq), north of Mt. Dundas in North Star Bay in northern...
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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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Paternoster Midden is a megamidden on the west coast of South Africa. This megamidden has particular value, as it is one of the few megamiddens in existence...
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The Ōguruwa Shell Midden (大曲輪貝塚, Ōguruwa kaizuka) is an archaeological site with a shell midden and Jōmon period settlement site located in the Yamashitatori...
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The High Point Shell Midden (Smithsonian trinomial: 35CU215) is a prehistoric archeological site located in Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor near...
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Dansker Garderobe Gong farmer Groom of the Stool Night soil Pail closet Privy midden Reredorter See also Ecological sanitation History of water supply and sanitation...
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The Black Middens is a reef at the mouth of the River Tyne in North East England, noted for the danger it poses to shipping. The Black Middens is particularly...
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Coprinus sterquilinus (redirect from Midden ink cap)
Coprinus sterquilinus, the midden ink cap, is a species of fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It grows on animal dung and occurs in Europe, Asia and America...
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The Bubba Midden is a historic site near Green Cove Springs, Florida. It is located on Fleming Island, northwest of Green Cove Springs. On March 2, 1990...
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The Kaigarayama shell midden (貝殻山貝塚, Kaigarayama kaizuka) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a large-scale Yayoi period settlement with...
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Royal Museum for Central Africa (redirect from Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika)
The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika (KMMA); French: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (MRAC); German:...
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(13 December 1991). "Eighth Millennium Pottery from a Prehistoric Shell Midden [sic] in the Brazilian Amazon". Science. 254 (5038): 1621–1624. Bibcode:1991Sci...
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Reijmer; Marjolein van, de Water (8 November 2024). "Hoe de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten Amsterdam in geweld onderdompelde" [How the Middle East War Engulfed...
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The Yoshigo Shell Midden (吉胡貝塚, Yoshigo kaizuka) is an archaeological site containing a Jōmon period shell midden located in the Yoshigo neighborhood...
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