The Astonishing Truth About Midden Use Across History
Shell midden archaeology focuses on the use and significance of these sites through time and how they shed light on past human behavior and lifeways. In the americas, middens have offered insight into biotic responses to. Here, we examine the development of mound key as an anthropogenic island through systematic coring of the deposits, excavations, and intensive radiocarbon dating. Shell midden archaeologists have been particularly adept at addressing five key issues: (1) the importance of coastal resources in human history and cultural evolution, (2) the.
A) the study of aquatic resource exploitation and social complexity; B) the antiquity of shell middens in relation to. Shell middens, the residues of shellfish gathering, consumption, and disposal in the past, have attracted the attention of archaeologists for more than one hundred and fifty years.
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