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Definition of Shell mound

Shell mound
Mound Mound, n. [OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. mund protection, hand; akin to OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and prob. to L. manus. See Manual.] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. --Dryden. Mound bird. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Mound maker (below). Mound builders (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that occupied the country when discovered by Europeans. Mound maker (Zo["o]l.), any one of the megapodes. Shell mound, a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.

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- be discerned and analysed. A s**** midden or s**** mound is an archaeological feature consisting mainly of mollusc s****. The Danish term køkkenmøddinger...
- defined by midden or s**** heap culture and is divided into Early, Middle, and Late S**** Mound periods. The Early S**** Mound period was a hunter-gatherer...
- The Iha S**** Mound (伊波貝塚, Iha Kaidzuka) is the site of the remains of an ancient settlement on Okinawa Island. Located in the Iha district of Uruma City...
- The Kasori S**** Mounds (加曽利貝塚, Kasori kaizuka) is an archaeological site in the Sakuragi neighborhood of Wakaba ward of the city of Chiba, Chiba Prefecture...
- ****embly Names of Okinawa Naoichi Kokubu at the 1943 excavation of Enzan s**** mound in Taipei city noted the clay pottery on Yaeyama island resembled the...
- who reached out to the sea from this mound, picking and eating clams. This is the oldest record of a s**** mound in ancient literature. In 1970, 1703...
- The Ōmori S**** Mounds (大森貝塚, Ōmori kaizuka) was an archaeological site on the border of Shinagawa, Tokyo and Ōta, Tokyo, in the Kantō region of ****an...
- enamel in a human skeleton of the Final Jomon age from the Nakazawahama s****-mound, Iwate, ****an". Anthropological Science. 116. The Anthropological Society...
- The Kurohama s**** mound (黒浜貝塚, Kurohama kaizuka) is an archaeological site in the Kurohama neighborhood of the city of Hasuda, Saitama Prefecture, in...
- twentieth century. In 1952, Jōmon pottery excavated from the Kusaka s**** mound included the Kamegaoka style pottery from the late Jōmon period in the...