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.
Alfred J Taylor (17431389)
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Bonding together the pasts: the mining of lime in Brazilian shell mounds [PDF]
Plural: History, Culture, Society, 2017 This article seeks to understand the links between mining and archaeology in shell mounds of coastal Brazil, vastly used as lime sources since the early colonization.
Calazans, Marília Oliveira
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A new and already extinct Thaumastus from shell mounds (sambaquis) in Paraná, Brazil (Mollusca, Eupulmonata, Orthalicoidea) [PDF]
Papéis Avulsos de ZoologiaThaumastus teixeirensis sp. nov. is a newly discovered species found exclusively within archaeological shell mounds (sambaquis) located on Teixeira Island in Paranaguá Bay, Paraná, Brazil.
Luiz Ricardo L. Simone +2 more
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Marine Anoxia and Ocean Acidification During the End‐Permian Extinction
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 325-340., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Ying Cui +4 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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Lethaia, EarlyView., 2021 Biomineralization is a generic term used to indicate biological‐mediated mineral formation. In carbonate mineralization, nucleation of crystals can be: (1) controlled directly by the organisms, like in the skeletal formation of most metazoans; (2) induced by microbial communities, by indirect precipitation mediated by their metabolic activities; or (3)
Adriano Guido +4 more
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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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Temporal variability in shell mound formation at Albatross Bay, northern Australia.
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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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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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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