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Molluskan fauna in two shell mounds in the State of Parana coast, Brazil [PDF]
Biotemas, 2011 The shell mounds are artificial formations consisting mostly of mollusk shells used in the feeding of the prehistoric peoples which inhabited our coast.
Marcos de Vasconcellos Gernet +1 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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Applied Sciences, 2022 Historically, various types of shellfish inhabited the Jeju area to the extent that large mounds of shells were found. However, the most endangered of such species, Mactra chinensis, currently inhabits only a few villages on Jeju Island.
Min-Seok Jwa, Chang-Yu Hong
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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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Tetrapod biodiversity in sambaquis from southern Brazil [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiênciasFishermen-hunter-gatherers of sambaquis (Brazilian shell mounds) had an intimate affinity with marine-coastal environments, where they exploited a great variety of fish and mollusks that comprise the best documented fauna from sambaquis.
AUGUSTO B. MENDES, TAISSA RODRIGUES
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Cultural-ecosystem resilience is vital yet under-considered in coastal restoration
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 As large areas of the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) of the USA disappear into the sea, present-day communities and cultural resources are lost.
Jayur Madhusudan Mehta +1 more
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The Tricky Task of Fisher-Gardener Research in Conservation Paleobiology
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The study of sambaquis (ancient shell mounds) in conservation paleobiology is a complicated subject, especially when comparing body sizes of current and past mollusk valves to observe possible changes. There is a lack of information regarding how ancient
Anna Clara Arboitte de Assumpção +8 more
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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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Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2000 Pollen and diatoms analyses in a peat bog from the Baixo Ribeira do Iguape region (São Paulo State, Brazil) showed expressive changes in the environmental conditions.
Walter Mareschi Bissa +3 more
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Hjarnø Sund – all year, all inclusive
Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2018 Between 2009 and 2016, a series of investigations were undertaken at a submerged settlement of the island of Hjarnø in Horsens Fjord, Denmark.
Claus Skriver +2 more
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