Sentences with phrase «middens many»

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.

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.

These middens of accumulated faecal pellets and a brown tar - like substance known as hyraceum (a urinary product composed of organic elements, soluble salts, and carbonates; Leon and Belonje 1979) trap plant material, pollen, and animal remains.

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).

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.

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

For such feasting to have taken place (these middens are huge!)

Archaeologists have sorted through these «middens» to learn more about how prehistoric man and those who came after him lived.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

On a visit around 1910, Charles Frederick Holder noted «kitchen - middens, and deposits of ancient shells, and the tell - tale black earth» of hearths.

Anacapa Island has a history of human occupation by the Chumash people, who «camped on the islands thousands of years ago»; shell middens make up part of the evidence of them.

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.

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

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.

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.

Genetic: the dog dates back to the Mesolithic period some 15000 years ago and fed off our middens and latrines therefore faeces (poo) was a staple diet.

To prehistoric dogs our middens, latrines and village dumps must have appeared like manna from heaven.!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In fact, such trash middens might be the reason the Everglades in Florida has small, tree - covered islands.

Or at least durable trash mounds, known as middens.

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

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.

Cutting down the trees on the islands or keeping water levels artificially high makes these middens sink back into the muck.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

In a caption he's quoted as saying, «The only significant find seemed to be a complex of single - shouldered projectile points, found in lower - strata kitter midden.

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.

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.

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.

«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.