Sentences with phrase «called middens»

Ancient productivity Thousand - year - old mounds of discarded oyster shells, called middens, that line the banks along parts of Maine's Damariscotta River attest to the productivity — and Native Americans» ancient appetite for — local oysters.

Even Diamond had noted that bones of seals comprised 60 % to 80 % of the bones from trash heaps, called middens, found at small Norse farms.

1 Dawn of the dump: The oldest trash heaps, called middens, are in South Africa and contain shells roughly 140,000 years old.

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Working near an archaeological site in southern Yemen, Cole and his colleagues, with the help of a Bedouin guide, identified 25 middens that had been deposited in desert caves by a groundhog - sized animal called a hyrax.

Home to the Butchulla people who have lived on the island for over 5,500 years and originally called the island K'gari (meaning paradise), Fraser Island is filled with a rich cultural history, which is evident in its archaeological sites, middens and ceremonial bora rings.