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Posted on 06/22/2020 8:30:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists from the Museum Southeast Denmark were conducting a study for pit houses, when they found a hole feature that they have identified as a toilet, possibly the oldest ever found in Denmark and bringing new revelations into the toilet habits of Vikings living in the countryside on the Peninsula.
Many studies have been carried out on privy buildings from the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in towns and cities, but very few have been conducted on farmsteads from this period.
A macrofossil and pollen analyses found mineralised seeds (caused by high levels of phosphate) and concentrations of fly pupae that indicates the sediments accumulated in the hole were human faeces. The pollen analyses also discovered insect-pollinated plants, often used for creating honey or mead for human consumption.
PhD student Anna Beck from the Museum Southeast Denmark has had resistance over the interpretation from academics. Toilets are mentioned in the Icelandic sagas, but are generally described as separate buildings and differ in the interpretation for the hole toilet being proposed.
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Game of Thrones *is* a true story after all. ;^)
After this many years, the reek has gotta be outta this world! Hey...they were Vikings.
Yup. I’ve peeled the paint off the walls many times.
Back in happier times. When there were no lids to leave up.
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
- Shakespeare
“PhD student Anna Beck from the Museum Southeast Denmark has had resistance over the interpretation from academics.”
I’m pretty sure this qualifies as a “First World Problem.”
If I was an Archaeologist and my job was to investigate Viking outhouses, I’d be pretty ashamed.
The defining evidence was the crumpled up pages torn from
an Ikea catalog.
ha!
So when the Archeologist found it he probably yelled
Holy S#it Eureka !!
Archaeologist remain baffled, though encouraged, by their inability to find the Viking Kitty litter box.
These were Vikings!!!
They shat bricks that were so hard they were used to build castles!
Years ago I read a volume on pit toilet excavations from ancient Rome. After 2000 years, the stink was still so bad they had to fight off the flies.
Lol!
They might have been strong like ox, but you cannot tell me Erik would not have hung his head and sighed if Erica had yelled “Did you put down that lid??!!?”
So, what was your dissertation on?
No shiite?................
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