Shell middens rewrite history of submerged landscapes

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The excavation of shell middens off two sites in the Gulf of Mexico and Northern Europe dating back to when the seabed was dry land thousands of years ago, reveal how they can offer new ground-breaking insights into the hidden history of submerged landscapes.

An international team of archaeologists from Moesgaard Museum (Denmark), the University Of Georgia (USA), the University of York (UK) Flinders University and James Cook University partnered to excavate two sites containing shell middens in the Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Jutland in Denmark in 2018, showing that middens can be clearly differentiated from natural shells on the seabed to reveal a coastline's inhabitation past.

Full story: EurekAlert

Nice pics: archaeology news network

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I'm looking forward to the next Ice Age, when I can walk over to Holland, for some of the good stuff. 

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