Shell mound

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a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.
See under Mound.
- Fuller.

See also: Mound, Shell

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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He noted, one Sunday morning, that the Bricklayers' Picnic took place that day at Shell Mound Park, and to Shell Mound Park he went.
Just last year, the remnants of a large, historically important shell mound were hauled off Venice Beach by a condominium developer.
Consider launching at places like Ozello, Waccasassa, Shell Mound (near Cedar Key) and Pine Log Creek (north of Steinhatchee).
Through archeological research, large numbers of shell mound sites have been found in the coastal areas such as Fujian, Guangdong, Shandong, Guangxi, and Liaoning in inland China, which suggests that the use of shellfish resources has begun because human civilization emerged in coastal areas.
The home was built atop an ancient Calusa Indian shell mound and is now a restaurant and inn with the most unique decor you'll ever see.
Across the peninsula in the northern part of Canaveral National Seashore, Turtle Mound, a more than 1,200-year-old shell mound thought to be the highest in North America, also is endangered.
Many California oil and gas platforms harbor three fish assemblages: those that occupy the shell mound area surrounding the base of the platform; those that occupy the waters adjacent to the platform bottom, and those that occupy the midwater.
Fossilized traces of rice plants believed to have been cultivated 6,000 years ago in the early Jomon period have been found buried in soil at a shell mound in Okayama, western Japan, archeologists said Wednesday.
Built atop an ancient Calusa Indian shell mound, it serves today as an inn, with six guest rooms.
The Preacher Hole is hard to reach, nestled in the muddy shallows near Shell Mound. Dallus Creek and Yates Creek can be equally hard to reach, especially at the bottom of a winter tide cycle.
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