midden

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This later phase included shell middens, dense ceramic refuse, and a sophisticated system of canals and raised fields connected to maize-based farming.

From Science Daily

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.

From Seattle Times

And VanderMeer does not neglect the symbolical aspects of events, as when Jane must shelter ironically in a midden of pelts:

From Washington Post

They can be tangible, such as middens or waterways, or intangible and connected to stories, language, song, ceremony or other practices.

From Reuters

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

From New York Times