The world’s oceans hold their secrets close, including clues about how people lived tens of thousands of years ago. For a large portion of humanity’s existence, sea levels were significantly lower (up ...
The world's oceans hold their secrets close, including clues about how people lived tens of thousands of years ago. For a large portion of humanity's existence, sea levels were significantly lower (up ...
The excavation of shell middens off two sites in the Gulf of Mexico and Northern Europe dating back to when the seabed was dry land thousands of years ago, reveal how they can offer new ...
From left, USM intern Grayson Jones of Brunswick, Alan Stearns of Royal River Conservation Trust and Thomas Bennett of Prince Memorial Library at an excavation site. Contributed / RRCT Archeologists ...
Archaeological remains of coastal occupation in the form of shell middens are commonly found on today's shorelines, and evidence for shellfish as a food source goes back 164,000 years. Within this ...
A study published in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology has identified the earliest evidence of prehistoric ...
When people think of ancient civilizations in South Asia, the Harappans often come to mind. But what if signs of human life in the region go back much further than that? In a remote corner of Gujarat, ...
Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction. Shell energy: an introduction / Geoffrey N. Bailey, Karen Hardy, Abdoulaye Camara -- North America. Beyond subsistence: the social and ...
In a new study, researchers confirm a theory from the 1970s that coastal hunter-gatherers processed much of their shellfish at the beach before returning with their meat to camps on higher ground, ...