These remains, known as shell middens, commonly occur on the surface of sand dunes and vary in size from a few square meters to over a square kilometer. The middens range from a scattered veneer of ...

Many of the shell middens became road fill, which was a particularly big loss: Shells are alkaline, so they often preserve the items buried underneath them. But research continues, and the middens ...

A company with an exclusive lease to develop a golf course on public land near Hobart has been accused in court of "squashing ...

I have to admit I was impressed and intrigued. Shell mounds, sometimes called middens, often consist of more than a bunch of clams. At Kasori, there are lots of bladder moon snails (tsumetagai ...

There is evidence of both faunalturbation (an animal hole) and cultural formation processes (a post hole) in this deposit and they have affected the shell layer beneath. A midden is an accumulation of ...