Thanks BenLurkin. Great, now my intestines itch.
Posted on 06/01/2019 9:52:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Çatalhöyük is one of the largest and best preserved Neolithic sites in the world. It is located southeast of the modern Turkish city of Konya, about 90 miles (145 km) from Mount Hasan.
The population of Çatalhöyük were early farmers, growing crops such as wheat and barley, and herding sheep and goats.
It is thought the people living at Çatalhöyük either went to the rubbish tip (midden) to open their bowels, or carried their feces from their houses to the midden in a vessel or basket to dispose of them.
To look for the eggs of intestinal parasites, Dr. Ledger and colleagues used microscopy to study the coprolites from Çatalhöyük. The samples dated from 7,100-6150 BCE.
To determine whether the coprolites excavated from the midden were from human or animal feces, they were analyzed for sterols and bile acids. This analysis demonstrated that the coprolites were of human origin.
Further microscopic analysis showed that eggs of whipworm were present in two of the coprolites, demonstrating that people from the prehistoric village were infected by this intestinal parasite.
“It was a special moment to identify parasite eggs over 8,000 years old,”
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Thanks BenLurkin. Great, now my intestines itch.
Çatalhöyük …Was that Cthulhu’s summer home, away from R’lyeh?
Çatalhöyük...one more thing added to my bucket list.
Thanks, that photo can serve as a reminder to members of either gender of the face of some crazy ex-. :^)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichuriasis#Vector
From reading that, seems to me it would have been strange for them not to have been infected.
Who knew that DIMs/LIBs existed then?
Wasn’t there a song about “The Copriolites” ?
Desmond Dekker & The Aces.
Rooftop patios are common in many desert and dry middle east areas as well as our own southwest among the Navaho pueblos and others.
Back in the early 1950s, I was walking through the woods with my 5 year old brother when he had a sudden need to take a dump. As I prepared to cover it with some dirt I saw these little white worms squirming around in it. About 1/2 to 1 inch long. We ran home and called the doctor. He said “pin worms” and subscribed a medicine. None of the rest of the family—parents, other brother and myself had them. They cleared up quickly. Doctor said probably gotten from playing in the dirt as they come from other animals.
Oh, I’d have thought it would’ve been done by a group called “The Stool Pigeons.”
=running away=
The nice part about life in the Neolithic? The whole darned world was the outhouse, and there weren't any Nanny-staters making people register as sex offenders for simply heeding the call of nature.
I remember magazine ads, "this child has a loving father, loving mother, a good home -- AND PIN WORMS!".
I’m glad you got it, I screwed up the spelling.
Sounds like San Francisco today. Well, at least the world being one big outhouse part.
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