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kitchen-midden
kitchen-midden (ˈkɪtʃɪnˌmɪd(ə)n) [A transl. of Da. kjökken- or kökkenmödding: see kitchen and midden, dung-hill, refuse-heap.] A refuse-heap of prehistoric date, consisting chiefly of the shells of edible molluscs and bones of animals, among which are often found stone implements and other relics of... Oxford English Dictionary
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Comer's Midden
Comer's Midden was a 1916 archaeological excavation site near Thule (modern Qaanaaq), north of Mt. Dundas in North Star Bay in northern Greenland. ice-bound, Comer made use of his time through an archaeological excavation just south of Arctic Station of Thule unearthing, amongst other things, a kitchen-midden wikipedia.org
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Midden
A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap) is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, The Danish word køkkenmødding (kitchen mound) is now used internationally. wikipedia.org
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Erteblle
Erteb{obar}lle (ɜːtəˈbœlə) Also Ertebölle, Ertebolle. [Place-name in Jutland, Denmark.] An early Danish culture illustrated by remains found at Erteb{obar}lle. Also attrib.1927 Peake & Fleure Hunter & Artists vii. 109 This period, known as the Littorina period, is the time of the ‘kitchen-middens’ o... Oxford English Dictionary
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Dung midden
To mark their scent upon a midden, the bull will approach the midden in reverse and simultaneously defecate and urinate on the mound, using its tail to The middens created by the ants are called "kitchen middens" and are composed of food scraps, ant corpses, and other detritus. wikipedia.org
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Fergus O'Rourke
'A kitchen-midden at Dog's Bay, Roundstone, Co. wikipedia.org
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Theodoor de Booy
British West Indies 1918: The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands 1919: Indian Notes and Monographs Volume 1, No. 2: Santo Domingo Kitchen-Midden wikipedia.org
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Pail closet
The pail closet was an evolution of the midden closet (privy midden), an impractical and unsanitary amenity considered a nuisance to public health. Before the pail closet Pail closets were used to dispose of human excreta, dirty water, and general household waste such as kitchen refuse and sweepings wikipedia.org
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Risga
In 1920–21 some Mesolithic materials were recovered during the excavation of a kitchen. There is a shell midden, a scheduled monument that is at least , which is visible as a grass-covered mound. wikipedia.org
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Therkel Mathiassen
This was also the second ever Thule culture archaeological excavation, following the 1916 Comer's Midden in North Greenland. Mathiassen was able to manually excavate through peat, sod, and gravel, portions of 12 sod houses and a kitchen-midden. wikipedia.org
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St. Croix macaw
It was described in 1937 based on a tibiotarsus leg bone unearthed from a kitchen midden at a pre-Columbian site on St. Croix. Since they are known from kitchen midden deposits, the macaws from Puerto Rico and St. Croix were evidently also used for subsistence. wikipedia.org
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Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff
He was familiar with Danish Kjokkenmoddings (kitchen midden) and recognized the antiquity of shell heaps in the Andamans. With geologist Ferdinand Stoliczka, he explored a kitchen midden in the Andamans that they dated to the Neolithic period. wikipedia.org
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Puerto Rican quail-dove
Remains of the Puerto Rican quail-dove were unearthed in the Cueva (cave)Clara and Cueva Catedral near Morovis, in the Cueva Toraño at Utuado, and in a kitchen midden near Mayagüez on Puerto Rico. wikipedia.org
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Antillean cave rail
Extinction Bone fragments of this species were first unearthed by archaeologist Theodoor de Booy in kitchen midden deposits on the Richmond estate near wikipedia.org
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Nuku Hiva rail
Etymology The specific epithet comes from the Latin epularis (pertaining to a banquet) which refers to the discovery of the specimens in a kitchen midden wikipedia.org
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