Hermit crabs are ever alert for more suitable shells to inhabit, but what this may mean for coastal shell middens has rarely been considered. Here, the impact of the most landward-based of hermit crab families, the tropical Coenobitidae, upon archaeological shell-bearing deposits is assessed using a case study: the Neolithic Ugaga site from Fiji. At Ugaga, hermit crabs were found to have remove...

p s t m w t n p a g e r t A procedure to calculate probability limits for the inference that the absence of a taxon from a woodrat (Neotoma) midden implies bsence from the paleolandscape uses paired samples of modern egetation communities and paired samples of paleocommunities. ssumptions are: (1) each member of a sample pair is an indeendent measure of the same vegetation assemblage; (2) behav...

This paper reviews recent progress of Japanese shell midden archaeology and discusses how the information from shell middens can help answer some of the key questions in anthropological archaeology today. Over the past several decades, shell midden archaeology in Japan has made significant advances both in terms of theory and method. Active interaction with Japanese and Anglo-American archaeolo...

This thesis was written from the personal perspective of the author. The people interviewed for this thesis also gave their personal view on the subject, and these views therefore doesn't necessarily have to match the vision of the organization they work for. 3 Preface This master's thesis is written as the final project for the master ICT in Business. It is the result of a very instructive pro...