midden
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upright=1.35|thumb|A closeup of a shell midden in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
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- archaeological site
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- 8,000 years ago shell midden of 2-H-North part of Higashimyo Site.jpg
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- Shell midden sites
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upright=1.35|thumb|A closeup of a shell midden in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
A midden is an old dump for domestic waste. It may consist of animal bones, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and biofacts associated with past human occupation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “midden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.