An examination showed that this was a second, nearer dumping-ground for all the garbage and refuse of the swarm which could not be thrown down on the kitchen middens far below.
Before night these kitchen middens were an inch or two deep and nearly a foot in length, composed, literally, of thousands of skins, wings, and insect armor.
They would not come any further for fear he had an ambush hidden amongst the byres and middens of the village.
These kitchen-middens were first discovered in Denmark, but they have since been found in many countries where savages have lived along the coast.
Remains of the whale in Scottish kitchen middens of greatly more modern date show that it must have haunted the Scottish shores when the temperature of the surrounding ocean differed little from that of the present day.
The harder bones and heavier scales of several varieties of fish were also found abundantly among the middens of both mainland and Tiburon shores in 1895.
Their implements of flint seem to have been chipped only, and it is conjectured that the few polished and more highly finished implements that have been found in the middens are importations from more cultured tribes living inland.
For a variety of reasons it is thought that one of the earliest stages of neolithic times is represented by the now well-known kitchen-middens (refuse-heaps) of Denmark.
On the other hand, it is more than probable that the retreaters carried with them their kitchen-middens and pottery, which constituted their treasures, and without which they could not have prepared their food.
Thus another question is raised as to who the originators of these shell heaps and kitchen-middens were.
Taking all these circumstances into account, and weighing the matter carefully over, we cannot come to any other conclusion than that the Kitchen-middens must be of a very remote age.
And one of the uses of these middensis to provide food for the utterly poor.
On the floor Stern discovered three more of those little dust-middens which meant human bodies, pitiful remnants of an extinct race, of unknown people in the long ago.
The Danish shell-heaps or kitchen-middens are mounds generally about fifty metres wide and one hundred metres long, and perhaps one metre in thickness.
Littorina depression and epoch of kitchen-middens at 6000 B.
The raisers of the kitchen-middens probably preceded the men who built the tombs; for their mode of life was, as we should say, the most primitive; but they were confined to a corner of Europe.
What the kitchen-middens show in the germ, they show in its perfection--all the perfection attainable by it.
This interchange of state between the kingdoms of the land and of the ocean helps to show us the time which has passed between the making of the kitchen-middens and our own days.
It has been remarked that a large number of the bones dispersed in these kitchen-middens are incomplete; exactly the same parts are almost always missing, and certain bones are entirely wanting.
They chiefly consist of the cardium edule, which appear to abound in the kitchen-middens of the Pas-de-Calais.
To give an answer to this question, we must again ransack those same kitchen-middens which have been the means of furnishing us with such accurate information as to the system of food of the man of that period.
Almost all these kitchen-middens are found on the coast, along the fiords, where the action of the waves is not much felt.
These kitchen-middens form, in a general way, undulating mounds, which sink in a gentle incline from the centre to the circumference.
This is enough to indicate that all the kitchen-middens are not synchronous; and if there be some which go far back into antiquity, on the other hand there are some which are quite modern.
After referring to the identity of certain objects from the Hastings kitchen-middens and a barrow near Sevenoaks, W.
As a natural consequence of the proximity of middens to dwelling-houses, and other unhealthy arrangements, cases of fever occasionally occur.
They were so plentiful that he could not cure them all, so he made middens of them, and he also boiled quantities for the oil from them.
The kitchen-middens tell the early story with greater accuracy than could any writer who ever lifted pen.
We have seen in the account of the Danish kitchen-middens of the Recent period that even at the comparatively late period of their origin the waters of the Baltic had been rendered more salt than they are now.
And the Middens would pick your eyes out, Master Fish-catcher.
But Nod came to a stand, half crouching, amazed, and watched, as it seemed to him, the Middens of Tishnar riding more beautiful than daybreak in the moonlight of her hills.
Oh, I should weep riversful of salt tears if the Water-middens picked your gentle eyes out.
Mutta-matutta once had told Nod a story about the Water-middens whom Tishnar had made beyond all things beautiful, and yet whose beauty had made beyond all things sad.
Are there, then, no other Water-middens in the river?
Nevertheless, there have been very few outbreaks of enteric fever in which the fact that cesspools, sewers, or underground middens have been in direct communication with the sources of water has not been detected.
If, as seems highly probable, typhoid fever may be conveyed by sewer air, there is nothing improbable in the suggestion that it can be conveyed by the air of privies or middens in which fæces are allowed to putrefy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "middens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
