Sentences with phrase «ancient midden»

Perry and her colleagues looked for traces of chilies in ancient middens, or trash heaps, where such microscopic residue is preserved among other refuse.

When the researchers dug into the islands, they found ancient middens full of bone remains.

Our days will be spent exploring the picturesque islands, lagoons, sea caves hidden behind cascading waterfalls, and possibly a visit to the ancient middens or village sites of the Nuchalnulth First Nations.

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(One of the smelliest proxies that they used is pollen preserved in ancient packrat middens.)

But a group of squatters has built adobe shacks atop an ancient trash midden, or mound, and a local landowner may be planning to build a housing development over the buried pyramids.

Drive past aboriginal midden site at Spitfire Creek and ancient fish trap and on to wild Cape Moreton Lighthouse and breathtaking views to Flinder's Reef.

On a visit around 1910, Charles Frederick Holder noted «kitchen - middens, and deposits of ancient shells, and the tell - tale black earth» of hearths.