{"id":18890,"date":"2020-01-13T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=18890"},"modified":"2020-01-16T09:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T14:57:33","slug":"umaine-news-exhibit-highlights-threatened-shell-middens-containing-wabanaki-environmental-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2020\/01\/13\/umaine-news-exhibit-highlights-threatened-shell-middens-containing-wabanaki-environmental-history\/","title":{"rendered":"91¸£Àû News &#8211; Exhibit highlights threatened shell middens containing Wabanaki, environmental history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/exhibit-highlights-threatened-shell-middens-containing-wabanaki-environmental-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15749 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/06\/StephenClaesonAtMidden-copy--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Shell midden\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/06\/StephenClaesonAtMidden-copy--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/06\/StephenClaesonAtMidden-copy--768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/06\/StephenClaesonAtMidden-copy--105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/06\/StephenClaesonAtMidden-copy--317x212.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/06\/StephenClaesonAtMidden-copy--423x282.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/06\/StephenClaesonAtMidden-copy--634x423.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/06\/StephenClaesonAtMidden-copy--846x565.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/06\/StephenClaesonAtMidden-copy-.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/>91¸£Àû News Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new exhibit, \u201cMaine\u2019s Threatened Shell Middens: Losing a Link to Understanding our Past\u201d is on display until spring in the Minsky Culture Lab in the <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/hudsonmuseum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hudson Museum<\/a> at the Collins Center for the Arts. The exhibit is designed to help spread the word about the critical situation of middens \u2014 heaps of shells \u2014 that sometimes contain tools, ceramic shards and bones of animals left behind by indigenous Wabanaki people.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers Alice Kelley and Bonnie Newsom are in a race against time and tides to <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/news\/newsletters\/minding-maines-middens\/\">document the cultural and paleoenvironmental information contained in the shell heaps<\/a> before they\u2019re swept out to sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information on Alice and Bonnie&#8217;s research:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solutions article: <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/news\/newsletters\/minding-maines-middens\/\">Minding Maine&#8217;s Middens<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Project page: <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/road-to-solutions\/road-to-solutions-sustainability-maines-coastal-cultural-heritage-creating-maine-midden-minder-network-database\/\">Sustainability for Maine\u2019s Coastal Cultural Heritage: Creating a Maine Midden Minder Network and Database<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>91¸£Àû News Full Article A new exhibit, \u201cMaine\u2019s Threatened Shell Middens: Losing a Link to Understanding our Past\u201d is on display until spring in the Minsky Culture Lab in the Hudson Museum at the Collins Center for the Arts. The exhibit is designed to help spread the word about the critical situation of middens \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_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-18890","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":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"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\/18890","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\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18919,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18890\/revisions\/18919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}