midden

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With the man's son directing them, the HTS security force drives to one of the poorer neighbourhoods, weaving through a warren of back streets, past scrapyards and middens.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024

In the summer of 2022, a team of researchers visited Greenland to take soil samples from heaps of human and animal waste, or middens, dating from the smallpox epidemic and before.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

Their bones have been recovered from refuse piles -- called middens -- alongside shells, fish bones and other scraps from previous meals.

From Science Daily • Sep. 25, 2023

The most vulnerable sites are shell middens: sometimes extensive, extremely dense layers of shell and other material that yield more insight than the layperson might imagine.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023

In middens around Yellowstone National Park, he said, they first show up in large numbers about five hundred years ago, the time of the great epidemics.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann