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From Guaratuba to Babitonga: a geologicevolutionary contribution to the study of the spatial distribution of the shell mound builders on the northern coast of Santa Catarina.

Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2001
The paper presents a geologic-evolutionary approach to the shell mound along the coastal plain of Joinville, whose results indicate a possible route for the displacement of the shell mound builders between the Paraná southern coast and the Santa Catarina
Mário Sérgio Celski de Oliveira, Norberto Olmiro Horn Filho   +1 more
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Continuity and change in the coast of Santa Catarina.

Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 1998
Stability and change on the seashore of the federal state of Santa Catarina studies seven shell mounds with large excavated areas and examines the differences between them.
Pedro Ignácio Schmitz
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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, Carlos João Birckolz   +1 more
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Lutz's spontaneous sedimentation technique and the paleoparasitological analysis of sambaqui (shell mound) sediments

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013
Parasite findings in sambaquis (shell mounds) are scarce. Although the 121 shell mound samples were previously analysed in our laboratory, we only recently obtained the first positive results.
Morgana Camacho, Thaíla Pessanha, Daniela Leles, Juliana MF Dutra, Rosângela Silva, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Adauto Araujo   +6 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, Katherine Szabo, José M Capriles, Jan-Hendrik May, Wulf Amelung, Rainer Hutterer, Eva Lehndorff, Anna Plotzki, Heinz Veit   +8 more
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Investigating the Link between Microalgal Nutrition and the Environment in Hen Clam (Mactra chinensis) Larvae Growth and Survival

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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Tetrapod biodiversity in sambaquis from southern Brazil [PDF]

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Fishermen-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, Elizabeth L. Chamberlain   +1 more
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Integrating geoarchaeology and magnetic susceptibility at three shell mounds: a pilot study from Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia [PDF]

, 2014
In coastal areas of the globe, open shell matrix sites are commonly used to establish regional chronologies of human occupation and identify patterns of cultural change, particularly for the Holocene, post-sea-level stabilisation period.
Rosendahl, Daniel, Lowe, Kelsey M., Ulm, Sean, Wallis, Lynley A.   +3 more
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Palaeoenvironmental evolution in the coastal plain of Baixo Ribeira during the shell mounds occupation.

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, Jean-Pierre Ybert, Eduardo Luis Martins Catharino, Miryam Kutner   +3 more
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