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Shell Mounds in the Southeast: Middens, Monuments, Temple Mounds, Rings, or Works?
American Antiquity, 2010Focusing on the southeastern United States, I provide some alternative perspectives on shell mounds previously interpreted as architectural features, temple mounds, and feasting sites. The same pattern of deposition often inferred to indicate mound construction—darker-colored, highly organic strata alternating with lighter-colored, shell-rich strata ...
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Sambaqui (Shell Mound) Societies of Coastal Brazil
2008Sambaquis (the Brazilian term for shell mounds, derived from the Tupi language) are widely distributed along the shoreline of Brazil and were noted in European accounts as early as the sixteenth century. They typically occur in highly productive bay and lagoon ecotones where the mingling of salt and fresh waters supports mangrove vegetation and ...
Maria Dulce Gaspar +3 more
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Shell mound formation in coastal northern Australia
Marine Geology, 1995Shell mounds are late Holocene deposits typically dominated by a single shell species. In northern Australia these mounds are associated with prograding coastal plains. The largest and most numerous are at Weipa on Cape York Peninsula. Archaeologists claim that these mounds were formed by generations of shellfishing Aborigines. This hypothesis is false
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Notice of Shell-Mounds at Lossiemouth
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Shell Mounds and Mounded Landscapes in the San Francisco Bay Area: An Integrated Approach
The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2006ABSTRACT Current understanding of the shell mounds of the San Francisco Bay Area, now almost completely destroyed due to urban expansion, is summarized. After interpretations of how and why coastal hunter-gatherers created these sites are discussed, salient characteristics of shell mounds from the area are outlined.
Edward M. Luby +2 more
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THE DANISH KJÖKKENMÖDDINGS OR SHELL-MOUNDS
2011DENMARK occupies a larger space in the history, than on the map of Europe; the nation is greater than the country. Though, with the growth of physical power in surrounding populations, she has lost somewhat of her influence in political councils, and has recently been most unjustly deprived of a great part of her ancient possessions: still the Danes of
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Archaic Shell Mounds in the American Southeast
2017AbstractFreshwater and estuarine shellfish began to be exploited in the southeastern United States between 9000 and 7000 b.p. Shortly thereafter, shell mounds appeared in the mid-South Shell Mound Archaic, along the St. Johns River in peninsular Florida, and, somewhat later, in the Stallings Island area along the middle Savannah River.
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Genetic insights into Brazil’s ancient shell mound builders
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023André Carlo Colonese, Krista McGrath
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