Emeryville Shellmound

Emeryville Shellmound

The Emeryville Shellmound, in Emeryville, California, is a once-massive archaeological shell midden deposit (dark, highly organic soil, temple and burial ground containing a high concentration of human food waste remains, including shellfish). It was one of a complex of five or six mounds along the mouth of the perennial Temescal Creek, on the east shore of San Francisco Bay between Oakland and Berkeley.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeryville Shellmound
• Page 109 - Hunt, P., 2007, Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History: Penguin, New York, 226p.