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Paternoster Midden : ウィキペディア英語版 | Paternoster Midden Paternoster Midden is a megamidden on the west coast of South Africa. This magamidden has particular value, as it is one of the few megamiddens in existence that has such a rich and diverse faunal and artefactual content. ==Significance== Most of the shell middens along the west coast of the Western Cape are small in size, and their content consists mainly of large amounts of marine shells and only very modest amounts of fauna vertebrae and artifactual remains such as ostrich eggshell beads.〔Cedric Alan Poggenpoel. 1996. The Exploitation Of Fish During The Holocene In The South- Western Cape, South Africa. Masters Thesis. University of Cape Town〕 Several middens have been found at Paternoster. One of these midden sites is known as PNNA, and is now referred to as "Paternoster Midden". This is a megamidden, with a unique content compared to other middens on the same coast.〔Karim Sadr, John Gribble & Gail Euston-Brown. Archaeological survey on the Vredenburg Peninsula〕Paternosted Midden is a large site, 350 m long and 150 m wide. It contains a large percentage of faunal remains made up of small animals such as tortoises, marine birds, snakes, and Cape fur seals, as well as small and large bovids, such as steenbok, grysbok, eland, buffalo and even an extra-large bovid with elephant remains.〔Cedric Alan Poggenpoel. 1996. The Exploitation Of Fish During The Holocene In The South-Western Cape, South Africa. Masters Thesis. University of Cape Town〕 The megamidden also contains cultural items which are rarely found in middens; ostrich eggshell beads (OES) are among the most notable of these finds. Other cultural items found were stone artefacts and unworked OES fragments that are likely to be the remnants of food or water containers.〔Karim Sadr. Marine shell dates and surface lithic assemblages on the west coast of South Africa. J.Archaeol.Sci.(2009),doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.08.011〕
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