This is one of many middens, Stone Age cooking spots, that have been found in the area.

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In a recent paper in Ecosystems, Robert Steneck and his colleagues at the University of Maine report that 4, 500 years of archaeological data from village middens along the coast, and also more recent fishing records, suggest that fishing pressures may have pushed the ecosystem of the Gulf of Maine into a new, less-stable state.

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