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• He is the author of well over 100 research publications including journal articles, book chapters, and six books on desert grassland, the cacti of Sonora, the Sonoran desert tortoise, and packrat middens and the paleoecology of the southwestern deserts. Contributor: Tom Van Devender
• So the pack-rat middens are time capsules of local vegetation allowing us to reconstruct what happened.
• She had ambition; she didn't intend to end her career as a brigadier in Hollands Midden. THE LAST TEMPTATION
• The middens from the city around the 8th century are full of shells from fresh water oysters.
• The junk itself is a collection of fossils from our evolutionary history, which makes it interesting in the same way that a midden is interesting to archeologists.
• Imagine a kitchen-midden, that is to say the detritus of ordinary living in different ages, accumulated along the side of some ancient water course, having for its dimensions miles in length, extending hundreds of yards back from the margin of this creek, of tens and tens of thousands of years ago, and having a depth of often many feet along this water course. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
• A combination of land submergence, coastal erosion, and solifluction had caused the deterioration of certain houses and their associated midden deposits.
• Now, their pyramid-shaped middens, or mussel-shell dumps, stand along the coastline like memorial cairns.
• Does the kitchen midden swell with pride when filled with undifferentiated garbage?
• Quercus virginiana was the only arborescent species found at all five middens.