Køkkenmødding at Mejlgård
The midden at Mejlgård is a prehistoric midden, located in the forest north of Nederskov Mejlgård on the East Jutland peninsula Djursland in Denmark is. It consists mainly of 2000 m³, or about 20 million oyster shells .
It is 125 m long, between 20.0 and 30.0 m wide and about 1.2 m high. When the waste was dumped, the associated living space was still right on the seashore; in the following millennia, the coastline retreated due to the post-glacial uplift . The steep slope of the piles towards the west marks the former beach slope .
When the Køkkenmødding was discovered in the middle of the 19th century, it was precisely the insight that such clusters of clamshells were not a natural phenomenon, but the waste of the Congemose or Ertebølle cultures , two Mesolithic hunter cultures. The excavation in 1850 by JJA Worsaae was the direct result of this knowledge, which was disseminated by Japetus Steenstrup .
See also
literature
- Nicky Milner: Oysters, cockles and kitchenmiddens. Changing practices at the Mesolithic / Neolithic transition . In: Preston Miracle and Umberto Albarella (Eds.): Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption . MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-9519420-8-5 .
- Japetus Steenstrup: Køkkenmøddinger, a compact representation of these monuments of very old cultural stages . 1886.
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Coordinates: 56 ° 31 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 10 ° 39 ′ 21.6 ″ E