Shell Middens

Robson, Harry K.; Hausmann, Niklas; Milner, Nicky

doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-90799-6.00028-8

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“…Freshwater midden locations not shown. Locations adapted from Rick (2023) and Robson et al (2022), and references therein.…”

Section: Figmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Approaches to Using Old Artifacts: Advances in Oceanography‐Archeology Research

Lecher,

Vokhshoori,

Watson

2024

Limnology & Oceanogr Bull

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Collaborations between archeologists and aquatic scientists are driving forward a whole new subdiscipline of methods to document and understand environmental change. Climate change, food webs, El Niño La Niña oscillations, and alterations to biotic factors such as salinity and stream flow have all been studied via aquatic archeological material. Much of this research is conducted on shell middens, the archeological materials they contain, and substrates they are deposited in. This article provides a primer on the formation of shell middens, procedures of midden archeological excavation, and the recent advances in aquatic environmental change research from analyzing archeological material collected from middens.

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“…Freshwater midden locations not shown. Locations adapted from Rick (2023) and Robson et al (2022), and references therein.…”

Section: Figmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Approaches to Using Old Artifacts: Advances in Oceanography‐Archeology Research

Lecher,

Vokhshoori,

Watson

2024

Limnology & Oceanogr Bull

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“…Shell middens are ubiquitous phenomena in coastal landscapes across the globe (e.g. Robson et al, 2023), and are also often encountered in uvial/lacustrine settings (e.g. Bērziņš et al, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stepping on shells. An experimental archaeological soil micromorphology study of trampling on a modern shell midden at Swifterkamp

Kleijne,

Kamstra,

Ens

2024

Preprint

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In this paper we report the study of shell midden taphonomy using archaeological soil micromorphology on an experimentally constructed shell midden. Using common cockle shells, and two different cooking techniques (boiling and roasting), we study the changes occurring in the shells, and in the soil below the shells. Our aim is to provide a clearer picture of trampling and various cooking techniques on prehistoric shell middens. Examples from Northern European contexts are provided as a comparison to our experimental analysis.

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“…Since almost two centuries shell middens have played a very important role in the study of prehistory (Worsaae 1849;Gräslund 1987;Andersen 2000) and the coastal peopling during the Holocene sea-level rise (Bailey et al 2013; Szabó 2017; Biagi 2020; Robson et al 2022). In the last fty years, shell midden studies have dramatically improved in some Arabian countries, Oman and the United Arab Emirates in particular (Durante and Tosi 1977;Biagi 1994; Uerpmann, and Uerpmann 2003; Beech 2004; Zazzo et el.…”

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Holocene peopling and sea-level changes along the northern coast of the Arabian Sea (Pakistan)

Biagi

2023

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Surveys carried out in the provinces of Las Bela and Lower Sindh (Pakistan) have led to the discovery of many sites with knapped stone artefacts associated with mangrove and sea shells. The most important group has been discovered along the ancient shores of Lake Siranda (Balochistan) and on the terraces that rise from the Indus Plain in Lower Sindh. Fifty-five radiocarbon dates from the Siranda Lake sites have shown that the lagoon was settled between the last two centuries of the 8th and the end of the 5th millennium uncal BP. This chronology finds confirmation in Lower Sindh. Since the beginning of the Holocene, the coastal zone has been affected by dramatic events among which are sea-level rise, tectonic activity, and the advance of the Indus Delta. The present landscape began to shape around the end of the Bronze Age, when arid climatic conditions established and the Indus Civilisation declined.

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Shell Middens

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

New Approaches to Using Old Artifacts: Advances in Oceanography‐Archeology Research

New Approaches to Using Old Artifacts: Advances in Oceanography‐Archeology Research

Stepping on shells. An experimental archaeological soil micromorphology study of trampling on a modern shell midden at Swifterkamp

Holocene peopling and sea-level changes along the northern coast of the Arabian Sea (Pakistan)

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