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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Shell midden"”.
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A systematic investigation of open station shell midden sites along the southwestern Cape Coast
… through the excavation of open station shell midden sites. Aspects such as who they were, how they interacted with the coastal environment and their relationship to inland peoples were to be considered. This was to involve the investigation of an area considered to be representative of …
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Archaeobotanical and palaeoecological assessment of three freshwater shell middens dating to the early Holocene, Yongjiang River, Guangxi, southern China
… palaeoecological assessments of three freshwater shell middens - Baozitou, Shichuantou and Nabeizui - in Nanning City, Guangxi, provide significant data on pre-agricultural subsistence status in southern China. Multiple archaeobotanical methods were applied in this study, including the analyses of …
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Archaeobotanical and palaeoecological assessment of three freshwater shell middens dating to the early Holocene, Yongjiang River, Guangxi, southern China
… palaeoecological assessments of three freshwater shell middens - Baozitou, Shichuantou and Nabeizui - in Nanning City, Guangxi, provide significant data on pre-agricultural subsistence status in southern China. Multiple archaeobotanical methods were applied in this study, including the analyses of …
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Sedentism among the Archaic fisher-folk of northern Chile: A malacological perspective
Oxygen isotope analysis of shell material from the Camarones West Shell Midden and from the site of Quiani has revealed that year-round collection of shellfish for food by the people of the Chinchorro Culture was not practiced. Additional shell demographics from the site of Quiani further support …
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The Role of Shell Middens in Prehistoric Economies
… Chapters I to IV, which set the study of shell-midden economies in a global context and provide a general analysis of the theoretical background to their study, using archaeological, ecological and ethnographic data. Chapter I is an introduction to the problem and to the theoretical …
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Vertebrate Faunal Analysis of The Anderson Creek Site (45KP233)
… that it be used for only a small sample at shell midden sites like 45KP233 in the Salish Sea.
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Actiononaias Ligamentina as a Biomonitor in the Green River: An Unique Approach for Analysis of Environmental Impacts
… from the Mammoth Cave System, and from Haynes Shell Midden (dating 4000 - 6000 years before present) 45 miles downstream. Analyzing the shell nacre of these mussels, and the soft tissue of recently collected specimens, produced an abundance of information including high tissue concentrations of …
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Preceramic procurement patterns at Krum Bay, Virgin Islands
… deposit is a small, preceramic period stratified shell midden that is composed predominantly of pearl oysters. Radiocarbon results indicate its utilization between approximately 2900 and 1700 years ago, overlapping somewhat with ceramic-bearing sites of the area. It represents an adaptation that …
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The archaeology of coastal shell middens in Ireland
Coastal shell middens are an important archaeological resource, with the potential to shed light on many different aspects of human interaction with coastal environments over time. These deposits of discarded shells, charcoal, and other cultural material can be found at various locations along the …
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A Regional Ceramic Analysis of Iron Age II Southeastern Arabia
… These include Iron Age campsites at Muweilah, a shell-midden field and campsites at Hamriyah, burial sites in the Wadial-Qawr and an elite building at Muweilah. A program of ceramic research involving a combination of both visual and chemical fabric analyses and formal analysis identified both …
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Burrows and bedding : site taphonomy and spatial archeaology at Tortoise cave
… at the Late Stone Age site of Tortoise Cave, a shell midden accumulation in the Western Cape, South Africa, were carried out from 1978 to 1983. The author supervised this project from 1981 onwards with the aim of expanding the cultural sample and defining more clearly the stratigraphic sequence, …
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A study of marine exploitation in prehistoric Scotland, with special reference to marine shells and their archaeological contexts
… include evidence for marine exploitation. Marine shells are found on a variety of archaeological sites, many of which cannot be described as shell middens. They are defined in this work as sites given over to the primary processing and consumption of marine resources, most obviously represented by …