Midden Points

From Shell Midden to Midden-Mound: The Geoarchaeology of Mound Key, an Anthropogenic Island in Southwest Florida, USA

Mound Key was once the capital of the Calusa Kingdom, a large Pre-Hispanic polity that controlled much of southern Florida. Mound Key, like other archaeological sites along the southwest Gulf Coast, is a large expanse of shell and other anthropogenic sediments. The challenges that these sites pose are largely due to the size and areal extent of the deposits, some of which begin up to a meter be...

Cees Midden Persuasive technology for a sustainable society

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مردم (انسان ) ماده و محیط MAN – METERIAL – MIDDEN ( ENVIRONMENT)

Charring patterns on reconstructed ceramics from Dunefield Midden: implications for Khoekhoe vessel form and function

Ethnographic observations from ceramic-using cultures around the world highlight a direct connection between ceramic vessel form and function. In southwestern southern Africa archaeological assemblages containing ceramic vessels associated historically with Khoekhoen pastoralists are heavily dominated by pots that conform to a very uniform shape – namely, amphora-like vessels with restricted ne...

"Twenty years of Ethnoarchaeological research in Tierra del Fuego: some thoughts for European Shell-Midden Archaeology."

Introduction Twenty years of ethnoarchaeological research in Tierra del Fuego on hunterr-fisher-gatherers (Fig. 1) has led us to reflect on some of the assumptions made in coastal archaeology, and specifically on the in interpretation of mesolithic shell middens. Contrasting the results from archaeological and ethnographic work on the same group is a way to of rewviewing the potential weak area...