There’s nothing especially remarkable about archaeologists studying stone tools and shell middens—unless they weren’t made by humans. A new study suggests that sea otters create a distinct ...

Packrats are hoarders who pee all over their homes. Scientists say that's great news for humans hoping to understand the planet's history.

I'm not sure if Middens is for me and it may not be for you, but it's unlike anything else out there and in a multi-billion dollar industry that in an of itself seems worth celebrating.

Middens thus have gone from trash heaps to hills of buried treasure. Napoleon Bonepart Mizell, better known as Bone, was Florida’s best-known, if not most typical, cowboy.

Rhinos Use Poop Piles Like a Social Network Forget Facebook: Rhinos get their gossip by sniffing feces at a communal latrine, a new study says.

A packrat midden is a debris pile — a sort of time capsule — that can preserve the materials incorporated into it for up to 50,000 years.

Maine Sea Grant has awarded Prince Memorial Library $5,000 for its Casco Bay shell middens project. The “Casco Bay Shell Midden Project: Carbon Isotope Analysis, Midden Vegetative Cover, and ...

Middens can be found all over the United States. In Florida, these sites are most common along the Gulf Coast, from the Panhandle to the Keys. Manatee County is home to several mounds and middens ...

Humans have been making landfills, or as archaeologists call them middens, for as long as we’ve been around, but mostly they were made of the inedible pieces of food stuffs.