ARCH0763 Spring19 S01 The Private Life of the Privy: A Secret History of Toilets
ARCH0763 Spring19 S01 The Private Life of the Privy: A Secret History of Toilets
Lecture 1: What Can Viking Poo Tell Us About Life 1000 Years Ago?
Lecture 2: Whose Who in the World of Poo?
Lecture 3: What is that Smell? The Constituent Parts of Faeces.
Lecture 4: Is it a Poo? Defining and Determining At a Basic Level.
Lecture 5: Whose Scat is That?
Lecture 6: The World’s Earliest Toilet or a Rubbish Pit? The Prehistory of the Toilet.
Lecture 7: Making the Toilet More Complex – the History of the Bog.
Lecture 8: Poo Where It Originates. Looking at Faeces in Skeletal Remains.
Lecture 9: Excuse Me, is there Anymore Loo Roll in Your Stall? The Material Culture of the Toilet.
Lecture 11: Read All About it! Texts and the Toilet.
Lecture 12: Moss, Seeds and Microscopic Plants, Looking at the Vegetation in Your Loos.
Lecture 13: Guest lecture by Dr Christina Warriner (Harvard University) – TBC
Lecture 14: All the Small Critters. Using Animals to Think About Waste Disposal (and Visa Versa).
Lecture 16: Whose Scat Was This? Using DNA to Think about Ancient Waste.
Lecture 17: You Are What You Eat! Isotopic Approaches to Poo.
Lecture 18: Going Chemical! Residues and the Archaeo-chemistry of Coprolites
Lecture 19: What Lurks Within. Parasites Part I: Identification.
Lecture 20: Who Did it Come From? Parasites Part II: Animal or Human?
Lecture 21: Eeeewww! Parasites Part III: Why Study Them?
Lecture 22: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and RISD Museum Trips
Lecture 23: Be Careful What You Eat! The Archaeology of (under)Cooking and Food Preparation.
Lecture 24: I Don’t Feel So Good! Health and the Toilet.
Lecture 25: So Doc, What’s the Prognosis? Medical Evidence.
Lecture 26: What Goes In… Thinking About Diet I.
Lecture 27: …Must Come Out! Thinking About Diet II.
Lecture 29: Across the World to End Up Here. Looking at Trade Through the Things Found in Cesspits.
Lecture 30: At a Crossroads: Migrations and Latrines.
Lecture 32: You Can’t Go There! The Politics of Relieving Ones Self.
Lecture 34: Shedding Light on Social and Environmental Change.Lecture
35: Filthy Habits! Thinking about Ideas of Morality Mapped onto Toilet Behaviour.
Lecture 36: Wasserluxus or Toilet Habits? How do we work out what is a belief or behaviour?
Lecture 38: Interacting With Animals – Why Should We Care About Non-Human Dung?
Lecture 39: Spread it Everywhere! Dung as a Functional Tool.
Lecture 40: Making Sh*t Things – Dung as Material Culture.
Lecture 41: The Scoop on Space Poop – the Future of Waste Removal
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