Sentences with phrase «in middens»

Pollen and seeds preserved in these middens indicate the climate by analogy with modern plants.

The bones in middens help explain why: As temperatures fell, people in the large farms continued to eat beef and other livestock whereas those in smaller farms turned to seal and caribou, as Diamond had suggested.

Their bones have even turned up in middens, or archaeological trash piles, dating back to at least 4500 years ago on Orkney, an island that lies about 16 kilometers off the northeastern coast of Scotland, and on the Outer Hebrides, a small archipelago located about 25 kilometers off the northwestern coast.

A few barley seeds found in a midden does not demonstate the Vikings ever grew food crops on large scale.

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

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.

Two graduate students in rubber overalls hose 700 - yearold soil off unidentified excavated objects near a midden downhill from a collapsed house.

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

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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.

Starting about 9000 years ago, the Honshu Jōmon began to bury their canine companions in shell middens — huge piles of seashells where they also typically interred their human dead.

Jon Erlandson of the University of Oregon in Eugene and his team found finely crafted spearheads on the islands alongside more than 50 shell middens — large trash heaps of seashells and animal bones.

Among the piles, known in archaeology as middens, were clam shells mixed with charcoal and other remains.

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

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.

The existence of the Worimi in the area is evident in the occupational sites and artifacts left behind such as scar trees and shell middens.

Remnants of Chumash civilization can still be seen in thousands of shell middens on the island.

The midden at Daisy Cave is the oldest coastal shell midden in North America.

If your adventurous mind is keen for a little exploring, there is a coastal midden in the vicinity of the Mzimai estuary which may, on careful search, offer up its iron - age secrets of ruins and scrapers to the curious explorer.

Aboriginal middens and cave drawings can still be found in a number of bays around Magnetic Island.

Their heritage is evident in archaeological sites, midden heaps, ceremonial bora rings, and stone implements.

They include sections on Aboriginal heritage, showing some of the shell middens accumulated over 10,000 years and more which are visible in the ever - shifting sands.

Archeological work on 2000 - year - old middens in Queen Charlotte Strait uncovered dolphin teeth, suggest - ing that dolphins have had a long acquaintance with the BC coast.

In 1997 the Victorian Archaeological Survey investigation reported numerous midden and tool - making sites at Cape Otway.

It goes back decades, dating to the end of art movements, arising from the middens of minimalism and conceptual art in the early 1970s.

Walking on the flanks of Cascade Head recently I found a Native American midden mound exposed in the roots of a fallen tree.

Those artifacts are found by digging in the MWP Norse middens.

The bears raid squirrel middens or caches of stored whitebark pine nuts in the fall, adding on the layers of fat that will get the bears through long winters, and improve the odds that grizzly mothers will have successful pregnancies.

And is likely to end up in the nearest midden if he tries to preach his nonsense in The Dog and Duck.

However, in the case of midden shells, the time span is several centuries.

Although a decline in modern bivalve shell δ13C has been shown to be related to increased use of metabolic CO2 with age [21], [22], neither our midden nor archival mussel shells showed a decline related to age (Fig 1a), nor did shell of different aged individuals laid down in the same year differ in the δ13C (Fig 1b).

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).

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 data are divided into Native American midden shells (black, n = 11), archival shells (red) collected ∼ 1975 (n = 5), 1986 (n = 7), 1990 (n = 3), and modern shells (blue) collected in 2009 and 2010 (n = 56).

One a few burnt barley seeds have been found in an old midden..

The close connection is represented in the many stories of the physical and social world passed on by ancestors — stories that often start out at sea and move closer to land — stories creating seascapes of islands, reefs, sandbars — and travel on to create the landscapes.8 They are evidenced in song and storylines, ceremonies, dance, art works, coastal shell middens, and many sacred sites, places and artefacts along the coastline of Australia.