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Definition of Middens
1. midden [n] - See also: midden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middens
Literary usage of Middens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"Kitchen-middens are abundant. Lists of the shells and the bones which they contain
are ... The middens are ascribed to the Ainos, and it is noticed that the ..."
2. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1903)
"As the older middens do not differ materially from each other wherever found,
... No pottery of any kind has been found in the middens of either class; ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1878)
"The class of minor antiquities styled " Kitchen middens," had long interested
me, and the bearing of their varied contents, on the question of the different ..."
4. Pre-historic America by William Healey Dall (1885)
"THE KITCHEN-middens AND THE CAVES. AT the close of the last chapter we said that
... From this point of view the kitchen-middens (literally kitchen-heaps), ..."
5. Indian Village Site and Cemetery Near Madisonville, Ohio by Earnest Albert Hooton, Charles Clark Willoughby (1920)
"Kitchen-middens. Dr. Metz discovered two kitchen-middens in the course of his
work in the cemetery. The first of these he describes in his notes as follows: ..."
6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"These middens are covered over with from a foot to three feet of sand and ...
This would make the middens quite ancient, if the rate of delta deposit was as ..."
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