Sentences with word «midden»

Researchers have found a number of shell middens in the area and, based on the archaeological evidence, concluded the Ohlone's primary marine food consisted at various times of mussels and abalone.

And if you fail to see, acknowledge and accept those changes, then you too WILL be left on the trash midden of history.

Originally home to the Gadubanud people (evidence of their existence can still be found in middens prevalent throughout the region) it now boasts Australia's oldest, surviving lighthouse (built in 1848) and is now well on the tourist trail not simply because of the lighthouse but because of its incredibly rugged cliffs and awesome ocean views.

Hofman and West used archaeological squirrel remains recovered from middens to directly radiocarbon date the squirrels; to look for evidence of prehistoric human use of squirrels; and to perform ancient DNA analysis of the dated squirrel remains.

The Alexandria Dune field is one of the park's lesser explored highlights, a shifting sand dune that includes ancient midden deposits from original strandlopers along these shores.

Four wheel drive past aboriginal midden site at Spitfire Creek.

The Umhlanga Lagoon Nature Reserve, with surviving Stone Age sea shell midden at its lagoon mouth, provides a number of stunning trails and coastal forest boardwalks and the unique Hawaan forest and its neighbouring coastal wetlands, grasslands and dune forest is a beautiful place to visit and the backdrop to a groundbreaking environmental judgement that has limited rights to build houses here.

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

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.

The insects created kitchen middens outside their nests.

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

Shell midden sites indicate where Chumash people camped on the islands thousands of years ago.

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

Coastal middens many centurys old have been found along this stretch of pristine coastline.

Or at least durable trash mounds, known as middens.

See midden remains in the sand dunes, discuss the legend of Fraser Island's formation, taste bush tucker, and learn about the roles of men, women and children in Aboriginal clans.

Evidence has been revealed by archaeological surveys of the shell middens deposited along Queensland's coastline.

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.

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

Island features: bird rookeries; Chumash middens; giant coreopsis; tidepools; kelp forests; sea caves; arches.

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.

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.

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.

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

Cole says that studying more hyrax middens could help confirm archaeological evidence of a moist climate in the region between 9000 and 6000 years ago, at the very dawn of agriculture.

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

Here, L is for Limpet and what they can tell us about Mesolithic middens, seasonal changes in the Atlantic Ocean, and the lives of people living on the remote Isle of Oronsay 6,000 years ago.

Beginning the next day, a portable dark room was placed over each nest disc and the disc and midden checked for marked seeds or seed husks under UV light.

It is a BC Heritage Site where archaeologists have found remains of an old First Nations midden.

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

On that evening please bring a piece of work that you would like to have registered, documented, preserved, and carted to the Fresh Kills midden.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Leks at Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam, 2016, and middens ❧ at Kingsgate Workshops, London, 2015.

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

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.

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.

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.

Shell middens, pictographs, clam digging beaches and burial sites are evident as we paddle through this area.