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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 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...
- Tokunoshima, about three kilometers east of the Isen town center. The s**** mounds were discovered in 1928, and several [[archaeological excavation]s were...
- including: Katsuren Castle, Agena Castle, and Iha Castle and the Iha S**** Mound. It is home to the largest venue for Okinawan bullfighting. The Mid-Sea...
- the southern end of the Kumamoto Plain, facing the Ariake Sea. This s**** mound dates back to the end of the late Jōmon period, (approximately 3,000...
- 0″E / 35.590778°N 139.729167°E / 35.590778; 139.729167 The Ōmori S**** Mounds (大森貝塚, Ōmori kaizuka) was an archaeological site on the border of Shinagawa...
- twentieth century. In 1952, Jōmon pottery excavated from the Kusaka s**** mound included the Kamegaoka style pottery from the late Jōmon period in the...
- Indian Mound Park, also known as S**** Mound Park or Indian S**** Mound Park, is a park and bird refuge located on the northern s**** of Dauphin Island...
- The Sanya S**** Midden (山野貝塚, Sanya kaizuka) is an archaeological site in the Iitomi neighborhood of the city of Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, in the Kantō...