Beachcombing Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Beachcombing
In archaeology the beachcombing lifestyle is associated with coastal shell-middens that sometimes accumulate over many hundreds if not thousands of years. Evidence at Klasies River Caves inSouth Africa, and Gulf of Zula inEritrea, show that a beachcombing option is one of the earliest activities separating anatomically modern human homo sapiens from the ancestral subspecies of Homo erectus. In Uruguay, the term has been naturalized into the Spanish form Bichicome, and refers to poor or lower-class people. The Spanish form also draws on the similarities to the Spanish bicho (small animal/insect) and comer (eat), Similarly, the term has entered the Greek slang through sailors, the word "pitsikómis" (πιτσικόμης). In Japan, the practice of clam gathering on the beach is calledshiohigari(潮干狩り,
Beachcombing Travel Guide Sections
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