It goes back decades, dating to the end of art movements, arising
from the middens of minimalism and conceptual art in the early 1970s.
Pot herbs and stems
from the midden include Allium (wild onion), Eriogonum (wild buckwheat), and Apiaceae (parsley family)(Richard H. Hevly, unpublished data).
«Plants recovered
from the midden of Dust Devil Cave include the dry fruits or seeds of Juniperus, Ephedra (mormon tea), Pinus edulis, grass, Chenopodium (goosefoot), Quercus, and Opuntia.
The mean value of δ13C has declined into the present with a decrease of 0.36 ‰
from the midden to the archival shells and an additional 0.53 ‰ decline for δ13C in modern shells (Figure 1a, ANOVA and Tukey HSD, F2, 289 = 81.32, p < 0.001).
Not exact matches
Shelley Bolderson was scraping mud
from a trowel one day in an Anglo - Saxon
midden in St. Neots, United Kingdom, when she realized she didn't want to be an archaeologist any longer.
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.
Two graduate students in rubber overalls hose 700 - yearold soil off unidentified excavated objects near a
midden downhill
from a collapsed house.
Archaeologists piece together the history of a civilization
from pollen grains, kitchen
middens, potshards, tools, works of art, written sources and other site - specific artifacts.
«Compared with the Dust Devil Cave
midden, only a limited number of pollen and macrofossil types were recovered
from the coprolites.
Fleshy fruits recovered
from the cave
midden include Cucurbita spp. (non-cultivated squash), Shepherdia (buffalo berry), Astragalus (vetch), Amelanchier, Celtis, and Yucca.
To prehistoric dogs our
middens, latrines and village dumps must have appeared like manna
from heaven.!
It is a
midden, she says, several millennia worth of shell and bone leftovers
from Aboriginal meals.
The archival shell material spans
from the 1960s through 1990, while
midden shells were dated back to 663 — 1008 AD, dates consistent with previous estimates of human occupation [14].
Limpets (Lottia pelta) were collected at several sites on Tatoosh in 2009; archival specimens were
from oystercatcher
middens described above (1986, 1987, 1990), while a single individual came
from the 1970s collection of Suchanek.
The 11 M. californianus shells
from Native American
middens on Tatoosh also showed no significant year trend for δ13C (− 0.001 ‰ yr − 1, df = 38, p = 0.354).