A postcard from the early 1900s depicting an Indigenous midden in Damariscotta, Maine.
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Ancient stashes of animal bones, tools, and other artifacts are often dismissed as archaic garbage heaps, but the deposits provide glimpses of the cultural practices and environmental conditions of past Indigenous settlements.

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