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A shell mound is a pile of refuse left by earlier, often prehistoric, inhabitants of a place. In addition to mollusk shells, they frequently include bones of humans and animals, vessels of clay or stone, and other artifacts that give information about the people who made the mound. The archaeological study of shell mounds began in Denmark in the latter half of the 19th century. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A midden, or kitchen midden, is a dump for domestic waste. ... Classes Caudofoveata Aplacophora Polyplacophora - Chitons Monoplacophora Bivalvia - Bivalves Scaphopoda - Tusk shells Gastropoda - Snails and Slugs Cephalopoda - Squids, Octopuses, etc. ... Grays illustration of a human femur, a typically recognized bone. ... Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Vessel can refer to any of the following: Objects Vessel (French vaissel, from a rare Latin vascellum, diminuitive of vas, vase, or urn), a word of somewhat wide application for many objects, the meaning common to them being capacity to hold or contain something. ... Clay is a generic term for an aggregate of hydrous silicate particles less than 4 μm (micrometres) in diameter. ... Sedimentary, volcanic, plutonic, metamorphic rock types of North America. ... In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor. ... Importance and applicability Archaeology is the study of human nature and attempts to illuminate the question of what it means to be human. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Danish word for shell mound or midden mound køkkenmødding or koekken-moedding is now used internationally.
Shell of a boiler, the exterior of a steam boiler, forming a case to contain the water and steam, often inclosing also flues and the furnace; the barrel of a cylindrical, or locomotive, boiler.
Shell road, a road of which the surface or bed is made of shells, as oyster shells.
The commonest Unix shells are the c shell (csh) and the Bourne shell (sh).
Shellmounds form over time under offshore oil platforms as encrusting invertebrates, chiefly mussels, barnacles, and scallops, fall from the platform support surfaces and accumulate on the substratum.
When platforms are decommissioned and removed, the shellmounds remain, but faunal litterfall is no longer available as a food source for the shellmound community.
Divers attach transect lines to a central point (the buoy chain at the shallow shellmounds, the research vessels anchor line on the soft bottom sites and a conductor pipe on platform Gina), and extend the lines out in a radial fashion; the result is a wheel spoke sampling regime.
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