Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Kitchen middens \Kitch"en mid`dens\ [Dan. kj["o]k-kenm["o]ddings
   kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. midden a dunghill.]
   Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark,
   consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high,
   one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name
   is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast
   from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.