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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.

Meaning of Shell mound from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- The Ōmori S**** Mounds (****anese: 大森貝塚) are the middens, located in Ōmori, on the border of Shinagawa and Ōta, Tokyo, ****an. The s**** mounds had been...
- determined that the midden was a s**** ring with a diameter of 160 meters, consisting of 67 smaller s**** middens. Each mound consisted primarily of fresh...
- The Ata s**** mound (阿多貝塚, Ata Kaizuka) is an archaeological site in the Kinpu neighborhood of Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima, ****an containing an early Jōmon...
- Of the approximately 2400 s**** middens throughout ****an, about 120 are concentrated in Chiba city. The Horinouchi S**** Mound is located on a ridge-shaped...
- 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...
- Uto Peninsula., facing the Ariake Sea. The Nishiokadai portion of the s**** mound has been excavated four times from 1919 to 1966. It consists mainly of...