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Archaeologists excited over old toilets!
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| Posted Thu, 20 Jan 2005
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Posted on 01/21/2005 3:50:17 PM PST by vannrox
Archaeologists excited over old toilets
Posted Thu, 20 Jan 2005
Excited archaeologists are sifting through the contents of 150-year-old New Zealand toilets to get a better understanding of the everyday lives of early settlers.
Although there is plenty of oral and written history, there are gaps which can only be answered by lifting the lid on the sanitary habits of pioneering families, they say.
About 30 of New Zealand's leading archaeologists arrived in Wellington on Thursday to start a five-week project to collect and document information from historic sites along an inner-city bypass route.
The old toilets, locally referred to as long-drops or dunnies, "are a really good source of material", senior archaeologist, Rick McGovern-Wilson, said at the site where the Tonks family lived in the mid-1800s.
"You would be surprised what people used to throw down their dunnies."
The Tonks family, who ran a brickworks and set up steam mills and a shipping company in the area, had lived alongside their workers and archaeologists expect to find evidence of the different social standing of the residents.
"Bones will tell us that. You would expect the Tonks' probably ate roast mutton (leg bone) while rib bones would show their workers were eating mutton flaps," McGovern-Wilson said.
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adventure; ancient; archaeologist; archaeology; bathroom; crap; discovery; found; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; loo; lost; missing; museum; old; past; toilet
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To: vannrox
I know people who dig up old crappers looking for rare bottles. Some of the ones they pull out are worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
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posted on
01/21/2005 6:26:42 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Where does bandwidth go when it is wasted?)
To: vannrox
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posted on
01/21/2005 10:14:36 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: Fiddlstix
Thanks Fiddlstix. Not sure I'm up for a "pull my finger" ping to the list, but will add it to the catalog. ;') Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
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posted on
01/21/2005 10:15:16 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: vannrox; Fiddlstix
Hmmmm. We plumbers used to have a saying...
"Your Crap is Our Bread and Butter"
Never thought any other profession would sink to these depths.
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posted on
01/21/2005 10:23:39 PM PST
by
Diver Dave
(Stay Prayed Up)
To: Diver Dave
"Hmmmm. We plumbers used to have a saying..." Is it true what a friend of mine told me that you only need to know a few things to be a plumber?
Cold on the Right, Hot on the left.
Sh!t flows down hill.
Don't chew your fingernails.
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posted on
01/21/2005 10:28:41 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
To: Mad Dawgg
...and payday's every Friday!
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posted on
01/21/2005 10:35:36 PM PST
by
Diver Dave
(Stay Prayed Up)
To: Diver Dave
"...and payday's every Friday!" heheh I'll add that to the list.
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posted on
01/21/2005 10:37:18 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
To: martin_fierro
Oops. Thanks Martin. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
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posted on
01/22/2005 8:51:16 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: vannrox
LOL. Nuthin' beats an old john. Except for maybe a garbage pit :) One man's trash, you know...
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posted on
01/22/2005 8:52:21 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
To: Willie Green
,,, you just know there's money in muck - government grant money.
To: SunkenCiv; martin_fierro
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posted on
01/25/2005 12:19:56 PM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Send wire...main office...tell them I said "Ow." Gotcha.)
To: Constitution Day
Very! Thanks.
[privy joke to follow]
Santa: "No, No, Rudolph, the Schmidt House!"
[once again, 'Civ purloins a joke and makes a gracious exit to cheers]
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posted on
01/25/2005 10:13:12 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: vannrox; doug from upland; Mudboy Slim
Flush the Magic Dra-gon lived in New Zea....
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posted on
01/25/2005 10:14:53 PM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href ="http://www.michaelmoore.com/"title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: afnamvet; vannrox
"You would be surprised what people used to throw down their dunnies."
Draft notices, bills, watergate tapes, ballot boxes........... Maybe they'll find Jimmy Hoffa?!
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posted on
01/25/2005 10:16:24 PM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href ="http://www.michaelmoore.com/"title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: ProtectOurFreedom; duckman; Squantos; Petruchio; T'wit
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posted on
01/25/2005 10:20:53 PM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href ="http://www.michaelmoore.com/"title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: duckman; NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
not unusual to go thru a reading of 'Gone With The Wind' . . .Q: Is "Gone With The Wind" the Title of the reading material, or a descriptor of the event?
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posted on
01/25/2005 10:45:55 PM PST
by
Petruchio
(<===Looks Sexy in a flightsuit . . . Looks Silly in a french maid outfit)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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posted on
01/25/2005 11:13:35 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Already FReeped that song into "Puff, the Angry D'asshole!!"...LOL!! You oughtta take a run at it, my FRiend.
FReegards...MUD
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posted on
01/26/2005 12:49:45 PM PST
by
Mudboy Slim
(Create a new League of Nations, a LeagueOfFReeNations!!)
To: vannrox
I get pretty excited myself, over the old 3.5 gpf ones.
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posted on
01/26/2005 12:50:57 PM PST
by
Sloth
(Al Franken is a racist.)
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posted on
06/10/2006 5:23:11 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(All Moslems everywhere advocate murder, including mass murder, and they do it all the time.)
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