midden

1 Faith, Chase and Quick sampled middens near Boomplaas Cave last September and received the first radiocarbon dates from the samples earlier this year.

2 Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion.

3 For the latest study, they extracted DNA from 25 middens, the oldest of which dates back 48,000 years.

4 The archaeologists hope to locate a potential treasure trove, the midden and rubbish dump.

5 What they found instead was a midden heap, a pigsty, an empty sheepfold, and a windowless daub-and-wattle hall scarce worthy of the name.

6 Without stopping to ask, she grabbed it up and ran with the child into the middle of the midden.

7 These lands and waters also speak for themselves, in layers of history and time, read in pollen records and shell middens, in extirpation, in displacement and persistence.

8 More than half of the midden DNA they identified was bacterial and there was some evidence of ancient viruses.

9 These snowbanks, or “midden heaps,” as Durham calls them, are from attics, basements, personal archives, and libraries across the country.

10 Each tide washes away midden, domestic waste heaps, that provide a “cultural and economic biography,” Professor Bond said.

11 Their bones have been recovered from refuse piles -- called middens -- alongside shells, fish bones and other scraps from previous meals.

12 In front of him on the newspaper was a small midden of forest debris and dirty mushroom shavings.

13 While excavating the midden, or trash dump, about 100 yards from the house on the south side, archaeologists found two white pieces of ivory that at first they mistook for sewing bobbins.

14 On the cave floor what looked to me like nothing in particular turned out to be an ancient midden: a refuse heap.

15 Last year's excavation also uncovered a large shell midden, a place where the hunter-gatherers threw the uneaten remains of shellfish.

16 There was no movement from the midden pile, where the bright shorts and blouses of the children marked their passage.

17 The researchers calculated about 4500 tons of stored soil carbon at one archaeological site, whereas the modern village had 110 tons of carbon stored in middens.

18 They have a special midden where they put out their used bones and rubbish, proper earth closets, and bedrooms whose bedding they turn out frequently, to keep it clean.

19 Tierra del Fuego National Park is only about eight miles from Ushuaia, and one day, we hiked on its misty shore, past mossy middens where the early Yamana dumped shells, crude harpoons and other detritus.

20 She confirmed that 1,000-year-old native Olympia oyster shells recovered from Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe middens bear signs of some type of burrowing worm.

1 粪堆

dunghill muckheap turd cock mixen muckhill

2 贝冢

shell mound kitchen midden shell heap

3 垃圾箱

bin dustbin litterbin

4 垃圾堆

dump sweeping dustheap dumpage refuse dump scrap heap dunghill