| The actual midden matrix itself was a stratigraphical disappointment with its depositional history blurred beyond recovery. |
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| The plaster probably was dumped in the midden during one of the construction campaigns. |
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| The Shell Mound-an ancient midden pile, with equally ancient live oaks-offered a haven for scarlet tanagers, blue grosbeaks, and indigo buntings. |
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| For two centuries the crannog-dwellers threw their refuse into the loch, providing a ready-made midden to give clues to their way of life. |
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| But when we began to excavate the midden material outside the buildings we came across sherds of Unstan ware pottery. |
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| In John's day, there were cellars, coal-holes, a midden and such external toilet arrangements as might be imagined in the yard behind the house. |
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| And my friend Julio Betancourt who was near an Anasazi ruin and happened to see a pack rat midden whose dating he knew nothing about. |
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| A midden was found at the outer limit of one trench, where the original island occupants dumped their discarded food remains. |
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| Sited on Salisbury Plain in the United Kingdom, the midden mound contains discrete layer upon layer of flint, charcoal, bones, pottery and excrement. |
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| Spot whales, dolphins, seals and penguins, dine on freshly-caught seafood and trace the area's Aboriginal history at ancient midden sites. |
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| In 1904 the German Max Uhle dug in the hills zones a shell midden constituted by huge accumulations of food wastes from a marine origin. |
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| One video showed Bushell looking disparagingly at another house and saying how filthy it was and how much of a midden it was, a phrase he used repeatedly. |
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| The radiocarbon-dated feature that produced the wild rice was located at the bottom of an undisturbed Late Woodland midden that had been capped with a layer of sterile sand. |
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| The junk itself is a collection of fossils from our evolutionary history, which makes it interesting in the same way that a midden is interesting to archeologists. |
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| A combination of land submergence, coastal erosion, and solifluction had caused the deterioration of certain houses and their associated midden deposits. |
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| The Englishman's Castle is situated on a midden of great antiquity. |
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| Laessle noted the importance of the calcareous nature of the midden soil and its affect on species distribution on the Orange Point shell mound in Florida. |
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| A midden, by definition, contains the debris of human activity, and should not be confused with wind or tide created beach mounds. |
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| Archaeological maps of the coastline west of Saint John show hundreds of midden sites, a testament to several thousand years of uninterrupted human habitation. |
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| Heavy organic deposits such as those found in a midden or within a collapsed house structure hold moisture more readily and provide an insulating layer so that permafrost is slow to melt. |
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| They can be found on most bottom types, particularly when foraging for food, and generally occupy rocky dens, which can be indicated by the presence of a midden of numerous shells from prey items. |
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| His body was an open wound, crowned by thorns collected in the midden. |
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| The midden provided the houses with a stability and also acted as insulation against Orkney's harsh winter climate. |
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| A shell midden or shell mound is an archaeological feature consisting mainly of mollusk shells. |
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| The midden in Namu, British Columbia is over 9 meters deep and spans over 10,000 years of continuous occupation. |
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| One must exercise caution in deciding whether one is examining a midden or a beach mound. |
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| In West Yorkshire, a midden is an outside lavatory, typically in the back yards of terraced houses. |
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| In 2010, a midden near Aquarina included a burial ground for a chief and two handmaidens. |
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| They bring home abundant cowpats, rabbit pellets and other animals' dung, often leaving it just outside the midden. |
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| The inner fjord sites have deeper house depressions, with far more extensive midden deposits and abundant artefacts. |
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| A midden may be a regularly used animal toilet area or dunghill, created by many mammals, such as the hyrax, and also serving as a territorial marker. |
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| Midden sites have been found at Kerr Bay and in the Travers Valley at the head of the lake. |
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| Midden heaps reflect much of the day-to-day existence of the Caribs and the Arawaks, but it is the petroglyphs that hint of ceremonial associations. |
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| Accordingly, the culture is less commonly named the Kitchen Midden. |
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