The Georgia Coast of the eastern United States boasts some largest and spatially complex Late Archaic sites in North America, with most famous these being shell rings. ring village phenomenon its larger ceremonial landscapes did not, however, last throughout Archaic. Climate shifts that led to local relative sea level change area at around 3800 cal. BP appears have resulted conditions suppresse...

Bird bones from domestic midden deposits on Hegranes, North Iceland, dating AD 870-1104, are mostly puffin (Fratercula arctica) and guillemot (Uria aalge)—diving seabirds in the Alcidae family. We find that wings significantly overrepresented compared to legs, particular, proximal wing systematically more common than if whole birds were deposited middens. Trends wing-leg index distal suggest wh...

In the mid-Holocene (5000 - 3000 cal B.P.), Native American groups constructed shell rings, a type of circular midden, in coastal areas Southeast. These deposits provide important insights into socioeconomic organization but are also quite rare: only about 50 such rings have been documented to date. Recent work using automated LiDAR analysis demonstrates that many more likely exist than current...