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Dirt
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Object Number 84-73-10/36920.1
Display Title Dirt
Descriptions
Object Description Ashes and shells
Inventory Description Dirt
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Maine / Lincoln County / Newcastle / Great Oyster?; Whaleback?
Intrasite Stone fireplace; heap, bottom of; edge, 32 ft. from; heap 13 ft. high
Additional Geographic Terms Damariscotta; Damariscotta River, east side
Quantity Unknown

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84-73-10/36924 Fireplace ash and shells
Great Oyster?; Whaleback?
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84-73-10/36901 Shells and fragments
Great Oyster?; Whaleback?
Image Not Available for Ash and shell
84-73-10/36913 Ash and shell
Great Oyster?; Whaleback?
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84-73-10/36903 Shell and fragments
Great Oyster?; Whaleback?
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84-73-10/37156 Ash
Shell heap
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84-73-10/36910 Shells; ash
Great Oyster?; Whaleback?
Food, Cooking: Gemsbok horns in the ashes of a fire, with wood, ostrich egg shells, a mortar and a pestle on the ground next to it
2001.29.2987 Food, Cooking: Gemsbok horns in the ashes of a fire, with wood, ostrich egg shells, a mortar and a pestle on the ground next to it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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84-73-10/36914 Shell fragments
Great Oyster?; Whaleback?
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84-73-10/37282 Shells
Shell heap
Shell and ash
83-74-10/36920.2 Shell and ash
Ash
Faunal Remain
Great Oyster?; Whaleback?
Burnt shells and ashes
01-33-10/61774 Burnt shells and ashes
Ash
Oliver Site; Mississippi State Site #22Co503; LMS 16-N-6
Image Not Available for Unio shells and ashes.
83-44-10/32197 Unio shells and ashes.
Edwards Mound Group; Ohio State Site #33H A7 (128; 42)