{"id":15994,"date":"2018-07-11T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=15994"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:44:08","slug":"minding-maines-middens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2018\/07\/11\/minding-maines-middens\/","title":{"rendered":"Minding Maine&#8217;s Middens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By definition, a midden is a \u201crefuse heap,\u201d but in the case of a new Mitchell Center project, the heap is cultural gold and a window into Earth\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cCreating a Maine Midden Minder Network and Database,\u201d the project is being led by <a href=\"https:\/\/climatechange.umaine.edu\/people\/profile\/alice_kelley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alice Kelley<\/a>, UMaine geoarchaeologist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School of Earth and Climate Sciences<\/a> (SECS) and associate research professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/climatechange.umaine.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate Change Institute<\/a> (CCI).<\/p>\n<p>The project is focused on developing a protocol for use by volunteer citizen scientists in conservation organizations to monitor the erosion of Maine shell middens\u2014human-created accumulations of mollusk shells, fish, mammal, and bird skeletons and artifacts such as bone and stone tools\u2014that archive 4,000-plus years of cultural and environmental data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/news\/newsletters\/minding-maines-middens\/\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By definition, a midden is a \u201crefuse heap,\u201d but in the case of a new Mitchell Center project, the heap is cultural gold and a window into Earth\u2019s past. Titled \u201cCreating a Maine Midden Minder Network and Database,\u201d the project is being led by Alice Kelley, UMaine geoarchaeologist in the School of Earth and Climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"3","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15995,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions\/15995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}