Formerly known as the “boneyard”, this month Deep Sea News brings you the SHELL MIDDEN!!! A much more exciting and biodiverse assemblage of paleoposts. We have an excellent array of forms available ...

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 ...

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 ...

Midway up the Maine coast, a tidal estuary known as the Damariscotta River has long been the epicenter of oyster shucking. Shell heaps rise on both its banks—towering middens of flaky, bleached white ...

A small discovery that sparked big questions later in the history of America. In 1957, a local resident discovered an odd-looking coin while digging at a nearby shell midden on the coast of Maine.

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, ...