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The Whiskey Dick Shellmound, Washington

American Antiquity, 1959
AbstractA layer of shells covered by a mixed aeolian and alluvial deposit was exposed by a road cut in a tributary of the Columbia River. Three occupation levels contained few stone tools, including burins and large knives in the lowest level. A contracting-stem point in the middle level places the site in the Frenchman Springs III phase, 4th to 11th ...
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Population history of Brazilian south and southeast shellmound builders inferred through dental morphology

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2021
AbstractObjectiveThe Southeast and South Coast of Brazil was inhabited during most of the Holocene by shellmound builders. Although there are cultural differences in the archaeological record between regions, it is still debatable how these differences may relate to different population histories.
Daniel Fidalgo, Mark Hubbe, Veronica Wesolowski   +2 more
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Weaning process and subadult diets in a monumental Brazilian shellmound

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018
Abstract Studies on settlement patterns suggested that the fisher-hunter-gatherers who constructed the shellmounds (or sambaquis) scattered along the Brazilian Southeastern coast must have experienced considerable population growth by living in rich coastal settings.
Luis Pezo-Lanfranco, Paulo DeBlasis, Sabine Eggers   +2 more
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From the Emeryville Shellmound

1997
The shellmounds of the environs of San Francisco Bay are almost the only witnesses of a practically unknown period in the early history of this region54. They appear to us at first investigation unintelligible, both as regards the beginning and the end of the period during which they served as human abodes.
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A Reconsideration of Shellmounds with Respect to Population and Nutrition

American Antiquity, 1946
A good many years ago Nelson and Gifford made a careful and extensive survey of the shellmounds of San Francisco Bay, in the course of which they utilized quantitative methods of analysis to determine the probable age of the cultures represented. In the years since their publications, new deposits have come to light in various parts of the Americas to ...
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Diet and the Age of Californian Shellmounds

American Antiquity, 1949
In shell middens bones and shells are surviving indicators of the diet of the former inhabitants. Unless carbonized, the plants consumed leave no obvious trace.A comparison of Californian and Fijian (Viti Levu Island) shellmounds reveals a striking similarity in the quantity of bone and an even more striking dissimilarity in the quantity of shell.
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Ritual palm nuts in two Southeastern Brazilian shellmounds?

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Rita Scheel-Ybert
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The people of Jabuticabeira II: reconstruction of the way of life in a Brazilian shellmound

HOMO, 2005
Sambaquis are huge shellmounds built along almost the entire Brazilian coast between 8000 and 600 years ago. In the present article, 14 osteological markers from 89 individuals excavated at the Sambaqui Jabuticabeira II (2890+/-55/2186+/-60 BP) are analyzed in order to reconstruct the population's health status and way of life.
M M M, Okumura, S, Eggers
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Gardens on the coast: Considerations on food production by Brazilian shellmound builders

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020
Abstract Shellmounds of different sizes and characteristics mark the landscape along the Southern and Southeastern Brazilian coast, attesting to a multimillennial occupation that is dated from at least 8500 until 1000 calibrated years before present.
Rita Scheel-Ybert, Célia Boyadjian
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Ceremonial Bird Burials in San Francisco Bay Shellmounds

American Antiquity, 1959
AbstractBurials of condors at two central California coastal sites extend the area of this trait, previously known from burials further south and inland. It was probably a ritual practice from Early horizon times (about 2000 B.C.) onward. Possible connections with bird burial in the Southwest deserve study.
William J. Wallace, Donald W. Lathrap
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