Shell Midden (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Hayes. Stephen Silliman. Elizabeth Kiniry.

At the request of the Historic Winslow House Association of Marshfield, under MHC permit 2193, archaeologists from the CCEH at University of Massachusetts Boston initiated a survey of archaeological resources on the Historic Winslow House property. This property is the remaining portion of the Careswell Winslow estate, originally granted to Edward Winslow, Mayflower Pilgrim and three-time governor of Plymouth Colony. The extant house on the current 20-acre land parcel was built by his grandson...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lautaro Maximilian Hilbert. José Iriarte. Eduardo Góes Neves. Francisco Pugliese.

This paper will address and evaluate the micro botanical remains of the Monte Castelo (9343 calB.P) shell mound in southwestern lowland Amazonia (state of Rondonia) and the sambaqui do Tucumã (7.000 -4.000 B.P) located on the southeast lower Amazon River (state of Para). The focus in identifying and evaluating the floral dietary peculiarities of these specific pre-Colombian settlements from the principle that the south and southeast Brazilian shell mound occupants are known to have had a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Farid Rahemtulla.

Site EjTa-4 located on Calvert Island is a large midden complex capped with dozens of culturally modified cedar trees, and it has revealed older cultural material in the intertidal zones. Over the last five years the Hakai Institute has supported excavations of the large, undisturbed shell midden through the University of Northern British Columbia’s archaeology field school. The midden rises to 10 meters above the shoreline and radiocarbon dates indicate relatively continuous use of the site for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice R. Kelley. Bonnie Newsom. Arthur Spiess. Anne Spezia. Kate Pontbriand.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maine’s coastline hosts over 2,000 Native American shell middens. Composed of clam and/or oyster shells, faunal remains, and artifacts, these sites record over four thousand years of cultural and paleoenvironmental information. However, virtually all of these rich archives are eroding in the face of climate change-induced sea level rise and altered weather patterns. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Martindale. Kenneth Ames. Bryn Letham. Kevan Edinborough. Sarah Wilson.

The monumentality of the anthropogenic landscape of the Prince Rupert Harbour region on north coastal British Columbia has long been recognized for the number, density, and size of the shell midden terraces containing villages dating to the last 5000 years. The scale of the region’s archaeological record makes regional assessments of the mode and tempo of shell-bearing site construction difficult. We report on a program of regional and site-specific percussion coring combined with 14C dating to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Groundstone and sediment samples from the Cove Creek site, 10LH144, in north-central Idaho were examined for pollen, phytoliths, and/or possible protein residues. The floated light fractions from a fired rock feature and a shell midden also examined for macrofloral remains. This site is a multicomponent site with evidence for possibly three distinct occupations. Radiocarbon samples from the same area as the samples examined for this project date between 2500 and 3000 years BP. Pollen,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

Preliminary analysis of archaeological survey data indicates that prehistoric land use of coastal southern New England (represented by outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts) was year-round and more diverse than has been suggested by the traditional emphasis on coastal shell middens. Prehistoric settlement seems to have been concentrated mainly in a few locations with large intervening unsettled areas. A stratified random sampling strategy allowed estimates of the relative frequency of different kinds...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry L. Hunt. Patrick V. Kirch.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Bree Bamford.

Excavations conducted at the site of Hup’kisakuu7a (93T), in partnership with the Tseshaht First Nation, unearthed a variety of fauna that merit zooarchaeological analysis. Unlike the major ancient village sites previously excavated, such as Ts’ishaa and Huu7ii, the shallow shell midden of 93T is representative of a small-scale site, potentially occupied over a long period of time, comparable to that of the aforementioned major sites. The faunal assemblage is small in comparison to those of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Phillips. Frances Charles.

More than 900 incised and painted pebbles were recovered from the Tse-whit-zen Site in Port Angeles WA, yet, few have been reported elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest region. Similar stones from two sites on the Canadian side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca were reported by an art historian, but no spatial or temporal data was provided. Anecdotal accounts by archaeologists indicate that some incised stones have been found elsewhere in the Salish Sea, but have not yet been reported in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles S. Bull. Charles Carrillo.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christy Dolan. Scott Moomjian. Michael Raen-Jenning. Brian Smith.

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DATASET Printice Petty.

This is the scanned asset key for the Breeden Site (12HR11) 1966 collection stored at Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Harke.

The Tiger Lucine (Codakia orbicularis) is a large bivalve native to the West Indies. This tropical species is a common constituent of late prehistoric (AD 800-1500) shell middens in the Florida Keys, the Lucayan Archipelago, and the Greater Antilles (e.g., Jamaica). C. orbicularis’ prominence in the archaeological deposits of these regions is the predictable result of its abundance, relative ease of access, and widespread efficacy as both a subsistence resource and raw material for tools (e.g.,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanya Peres. Aaron Deter-Wolf.

The Neolithic Revolution of the 9th millennium BC marks the period when forager groups independently experimented with the management and, in some instances, the domestication of terrestrial plants and animals. However, global evidence for human consumption and management of gastropods predates the Neolithic Revolution, indicating that terrestrial and aquatic snails were an important resource for human societies during the Holocene. Abundant deposits of aquatic snails are reported from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patty Jo Watson. William H. Marquardt.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Alan May.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only John Michael Garbellano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research focuses on reanalyzing the Dogan Point site and other Archaic shell midden sites along the lower Hudson River. The Dogan point site has a shell component with calibrated dates ranging from 7919 B.P. and 2343 B.P., and a non shell component with calibrated dates ranging from 3261 B.P. and 473 B.P. Dogan Point was originally investigated by Louis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Marquardt. Patty Jo Watson.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabelle Lulewicz. Victor Thompson. Thomas Pluckhahn.

Coastal fisher-gather-hunters often have a deep connection among their ritual practices, economic systems, and the built environment. Emerging trends and traditions of cooperation within forager communities can have lasting impacts on group social organization and can be instrumental in the development of early villages. The Crystal River region of the Gulf Coast of Florida, U.S.A provides an interesting locale to explore the intersection between shell mound architecture and cooperative mass...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Sampson.

Subsistence strategies shape mobility and site use practices. These relationships can be investigated at a regional scale, but they also appear at the level of daily domestic activities. The interpretation of subsistence remains is enhanced by assessing how specific deposits and activity areas across a site fit into broader strategies and relate to community organization. At many coastal and riverine sites of the American Southeast, mollusk shell is prevalent and well-preserved in midden...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Stephen Athens.

Summary of archaeological deposits discovered during the construction of the OMNI Antenna Pad and Cable Trench.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rita Dias. Cleia Detry. Nuno Bicho.

The onset of the Holocene in the Iberian Atlantic coast is associated with the appearance of the Mesolithic shell middens, which reflected new subsistence patterns that have been commonly characterized by the intensification of aquatic resources exploitation. Recently, sclerochronological analysis of shell midden faunal remains has been seen as fundamental to infer climatic and environmental changes, human settlement, resource exploitation and seasonal occupation. However, fish bone and...