Sentences with phrase «shell middens»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

During this tour you will visit Aboriginal sights such as a fish trap and shell midden, exploring how the Juipera people made use of the areas plants and animals, prospering through their connection to the environment.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

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

It is a midden, she says, several millennia worth of shell and bone leftovers from Aboriginal meals.

Our guide was Lewis, the irrepressible chocolate Lab owned by lodge co-owners Bill Weeks and Annie Ceschi; Lewis led us to a kitchen midden, a great mound of discarded shells left by the First Nations people who once lived here.

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

There was no relationship between δ13C and mussel age for archival shells (coefficient = 0.003 ‰ yr − 1, df = 49, p = 0.823) while midden mussels showed a positive relationship (0.064 ‰ yr − 1, df = 38, p = 0.041).

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

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].

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).

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).

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).

The δ18O of M. californianus showed a different pattern, with midden and modern shells having similar means, while the archival shells had a lower mean δ18O (Fig 2a, ANOVA and Tukey HSD, F2, 289 = 11.77, p < 0.001), perhaps recording warming during the 1983 — 1984 ENSO event.

We are grateful to the Makah Tribal Nation for the access to the study areas and the use of midden shells, with special thanks to the expertise of J. Bowechop and G. Wesson.