(n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outbreaks of coccidioidomycosis and isolation of Coccidioides immitis have been reported from Amerindian middens.
(2) Results showed that a high percentage of the midden soils contained C. immitis, whereas none of the adjacent, nonmidden soils yielded the fungus.
(3) Physicochemical analyses revealed that the dark color and alkaline pH of the midden soils were due to past organic contamination.
(4) 'We are protectors, not protesters': why I'm fighting the North Dakota pipeline Read more Kandi Mossett, an organiser with the Indigenous Environmental Network explains: “There are sacred sites out here, there are midden pile sites, historic sites.
(5) In Chile in 1962, two Italian journalists wrote pieces comparing the host country to a midden – not particularly tactfully, as there had been an earthquake two years previously killing 6,000 people – and so the home team responded to the slight by hoofing the Azzurri around like old socks in the infamous David Coleman baiting Battle of Santiago .
(6) The shell midden habitation and cemetery site originally yielded the remains of 390 individuals.
(7) The physicochemical properties of the midden soils were compared with nonmidden soils and positive soils.
(8) The pathogens do not survive very long in stored farmyard manure because of the temperatures and biological and biochemical activities prevailing in the middens.
(9) Not that global warming is a reality for anyone but a few scaremongering communists who want us all to eat nettles and live in middens.
Prehistoric
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
Example Sentences:
(1) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(2) Trephination dates from prehistoric neolithic times (10,000-7000 B.C.)
(3) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
(4) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(5) These results suggest that Wilson bands are an indicator of the relative proportion of individuals who are high susceptibles in prehistoric populations.
(6) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
(7) Comparisons of these ancient Sri Lankans with other prehistoric skeletal series from South Asia and elsewhere support the hypothesis that muscular-skeletal robusticity was a significant physical adaptation of earlier hunting-foraging populations.
(8) In case of the boy from Basta 1, this would the earliest evidence for the occurrence of this type of sexual delinquency in prehistoric times.
(9) The possibility of obtaining information on growth and development from prehistoric and early historic skeletal remains of children and juveniles is discussed.
(10) Abraded grooves have been observed on the anterior teeth of all the adults in a small population of prehistoric California Indians.
(11) According to Chinese classical literature on materia medica, the early uses were limited to the parts of the plant which met the most obvious needs of the prehistorical people in their struggle for existence-food and pain reliever.
(12) This reduction in size is one of the most important criteria for distinguishing prehistoric domestic livestock from their wild forms.
(13) Reasons for the existing lack of anthropological data on the subject are suggested, and the potential usefulness of representative surveys of large samples of prehistoric populations is stressed.
(14) Samples of innominates from three prehistoric Amerindian populations were used.
(15) Within North American prehistoric Indian populations, increasing brachycephalization and the possible development of a larger, broader face are two structural trends that can be identified.
(16) This result is different than that in some other prehistoric native American populations, where tibia CSMI increases with age in both sexes.
(17) Our objective in this study was to determine whether the prevalences of periodontal diseases, coronal caries, and root caries for prehistoric inhabitants vary between geochemical regions of the state of Missouri.
(18) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
(19) The world's universities overflow with economic research proving beyond doubt that contemporary capitalist economies do not function as if their denizens were prehistoric humans trading nuts and berries at the edge of the forest – the great delusion of free market economics.
(20) The comparative analysis of parasitological findings illustrates the effects of changing subsistence strategies and varying life-style on prehistoric human parasitism.