Temporal variability in shell mound formation at Albatross Bay, northern Australia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 We report the results of 212 radiocarbon determinations from the archaeological excavation of 70 shell mound deposits in the Wathayn region of Albatross Bay, Australia.
Simon J Holdaway +5 more
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Impacts from Partial Removal of Decommissioned Oil and Gas Platforms on Fish Biomass and Production on the Remaining Platform Structure and Surrounding Shell Mounds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 When oil and gas platforms become obsolete they go through a decommissioning process. This may include partial removal (from the surface to 26 m depth) or complete removal of the platform structure.
Jeremy T Claisse +5 more
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The dynamics of fishing villages along the South Atlantic Coast of North America (ca. 5000–3000 years BP) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWe present new chronologies that inform the timing and tempo of shell ring and shell mound construction on the South Atlantic Bight. Our project combines recently acquired dates with legacy radiocarbon dates from over 25 rings and mounds to provide a ...
Victor D. Thompson +12 more
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Early and middle holocene hunter-gatherer occupations in western Amazonia: the hidden shell middens. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 We report on previously unknown early archaeological sites in the Bolivian lowlands, demonstrating for the first time early and middle Holocene human presence in western Amazonia.
Umberto Lombardo +8 more
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Notes on the shell - mounds at Seaford, Little Swanport [PDF]
Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1891 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Taylor, Alfred J
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Amino acid racemization dating of marine shells: A mound of possibilities [PDF]
Quaternary International, 2011 Shell middens are one of the most important and widespread indicators for human exploitation of marine resources and occupation of coastal environments. Establishing an accurate and reliable chronology for these deposits has fundamental implications for understanding the patterns of human evolution and dispersal.
Demarchi, Beatrice +5 more
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Lifestyle on the south coast of Brazil: considerations about shell mound (sambaqui) builders through bone and dental analysis [PDF]
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2023 Sambaquis are a specific type of archaeological site found on the Brazilian coast that contain a large number of human burials and were constructed by progressively and intentionally accumulating shells and fish bones.
Marina Di Giusto
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Nature, 1880 I HAVE received the enclosed letter from Prof. Morse, with a request that I should forward it to you. I hope that it may be published, for the article in NATURE to which it refers seemed to me to do very scant justice to Prof. Morse's work. I refer more especially to the evidence adduced by him on cannibalim by the ancient inhabitants of Japan—on their
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Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2003 At Brazilian shell mounds, recoveries of sharks and rays teeth are very common, and their value for the shell mound groups is still under discussion. This choice of working with C.
Manoel M.B. Gonzalez +1 more
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Fauna malacológica em dois sambaquis do litoral do Estado do Paraná, Brasil
Biotemas, 2011 The shell mounds are artificial formations consisting mostly of mollusc shells fed to the prehistoric people who inhabited the coast. These sites are found throughout the Brazilian coast, where in Paraná hundreds were cataloged from the 1940s.
Carlos João Birckolz
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