Sentences with phrase «midden site»

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The University of California, Santa Barbara estimated that there are as many as 3000 sites or middens on the island although many are considered to have been temporary.

Shell middens, stone tools and art sites are physical reminders of their strong connection with the island.

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

Indeed, carbon dating of one site of middens (discarded mollusc shells) alone put it back to 2.500 cal BP.

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 court further rejected the claim that the contemporary practice of protecting sites of significance, such as mounds, middens and scarred trees, should be recognised as a native title right.

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.