Previously, shell middens were hard to differentiate from natural shell deposits. But our examination of three shell middens between 7,300 and 4,500 years old—from the Gulf of Mexico , the United ...

Archaeological remains of coastal occupation in the form of shell middens are commonly found on today's shorelines, and evidence for shellfish as a food source goes back 164,000 years.

Shell middens rewrite history of submerged coastal landscapes in North America & Europe. Flinders University. Journal Quaternary Science Reviews Funder ...

The researchers discovered that the oldest shell middens from among those tested were around 7,300 years old and were located inland in what they refer to as ‘post-shore’ sites, most likely located ...

According to the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, “Maine’s coastal shell middens are eroding in the face of climate-change-related factors: sea-level rise, increased ...

Thomas Bennett is studying shell middens to highlight the impact of climate change on Casco Bay. Posted May 23, 2023. ... The joy of discovery spurred Bennett to study coastal shell middens, ...

POCKOY ISLAND — Take a football field, reshape it from a rectangle into a circle, and you’ve got something about the same size as an ancient coastal shell midden. Two of these middens, about ...

The findings of this study compel a reconsideration of the models of prehistoric shell midden formation in other coastal regions of the world. The study of the Asturian shell middens offers a unique ...

Coastal people used the midden material to level the ground ... on middens had greater radial growth and less dieback from their uppermost branches than those growing farther from the shell middens.

Archaeological remains of coastal occupation in the form of shell middens are commonly found on today's shorelines, and evidence for shellfish as a food source goes back 164,000 years. Within this ...

Undersea shell middens contain important clues about the past - what people ate, who they were interacting with and how the climate was changing. Now we have a better way to detect and excavate them.