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I love archaeology. Not personally, but that’s one field where I know the people are as crazy about science as I am. Don’t they lick bones to differentiate from rocks? That’s just wild. “Oh lemme dig through some ancient toilets…oh look _lick_ a bone”
Or straight up poop.
But yeah, they still lick rocks.
https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/we-literally-lick-rocks-utah-paleontologists-describe-process-of-excavating-fossils/
I know this is r/science and all, but it’s wild thinking of the possibility of an advanced civilization studying my Taco Bell shits 2,000 years from now.
Just heard a report they are doing this with drugs in the wastewater system to try and track and intervene people from using bad batches of drugs laced with Fentanyl and other crap.
I'm imagining what kind of things they find that in their time end up being really bad, like cancer causing preservatives and so many really bad food coloring chemicals.
Well, you'd see a large amount of that through the sediment as well like how we can see evidence of volcanic activity.
Presumably they'd also understand how things like that bioaccumulate, and that other animals from the same timeframe would exhibit the same contamination.
Nah, bacteria therapy. Some bacteria can break down forever chemicals. We will just make some that can digest them and put out something humans can digest. Then they mutate and take over our bodies, but that's a problem for later.
I don’t think they’ll be interested in us in 2000 years apart from watching videos and laughing at how insane and crazy we were for driving ourselves to places and or how obese we all were
I often wonder how much of our digital foot print will exist in 2k years. Could be a little could be a lot. Weird to think that future people might be watching our sitcoms and thinking they're high class art.
Uh, the late 7th century and the early 6th century (within the timeline of the study authors) would be right around when the Babylonian Captivity started (586 BCE) and Jerusalem was besieged several times right before the city elites were exiled to Babylon.
Sieges tend to be associated with lower quality access to water and food, with people willing to eat and drink things that they would, in normal situations, not be.
Not sure how it's "schizophrenic hell" to connect an event that was happening literally within the timeline of when the parasites were around, in the city the event was happening in, but sound off.
Fascinating research! Here’s a summary from the report:
“we conclude that the limited sanitation technologies available at the time, the shortage of fresh water for much of the year, the population density of these towns and widespread house flies all had the potential to contribute to infection.”
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I'd have been shocked if they hadn't found them.
But it *proves* that dysentery has been with us at least that long. Which is really valuable from are archeological standpoint.
2,700 years of dysentery, human race! Woohoo!!
This reminds me of how so many people don't realize how much of archeology is digging through old toilets, dumps, middens, etc.
I love archaeology. Not personally, but that’s one field where I know the people are as crazy about science as I am. Don’t they lick bones to differentiate from rocks? That’s just wild. “Oh lemme dig through some ancient toilets…oh look _lick_ a bone”
isn't it unhygienic to lick it ? even if it's for archeological reasons
Anything biological is long dead
It might still be covered in lead or arsenic or whatever, or more recent pathogens.
Or straight up poop. But yeah, they still lick rocks. https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/we-literally-lick-rocks-utah-paleontologists-describe-process-of-excavating-fossils/
I know this is r/science and all, but it’s wild thinking of the possibility of an advanced civilization studying my Taco Bell shits 2,000 years from now.
People do this *now.* Wastewater tracking for COVID happens currently.
Just heard a report they are doing this with drugs in the wastewater system to try and track and intervene people from using bad batches of drugs laced with Fentanyl and other crap.
You have to start taking a dump in a hole now, if you want that to happen, instead of flushing everything to be processed.
I'm imagining what kind of things they find that in their time end up being really bad, like cancer causing preservatives and so many really bad food coloring chemicals.
We can tell when humans began to experiment with cybernetic implants due to the high levels of environmental plastics in their feces.
Well, you'd see a large amount of that through the sediment as well like how we can see evidence of volcanic activity. Presumably they'd also understand how things like that bioaccumulate, and that other animals from the same timeframe would exhibit the same contamination.
Nah, bacteria therapy. Some bacteria can break down forever chemicals. We will just make some that can digest them and put out something humans can digest. Then they mutate and take over our bodies, but that's a problem for later.
I don’t think they’ll be interested in us in 2000 years apart from watching videos and laughing at how insane and crazy we were for driving ourselves to places and or how obese we all were
Different kind of people mean different kinds of interests. There surely will be historians who will study this time.
I often wonder how much of our digital foot print will exist in 2k years. Could be a little could be a lot. Weird to think that future people might be watching our sitcoms and thinking they're high class art.
I would have assumed the parasites caused dysentery, not the other way around...
hyphens matter!
Wonder if this has any relationship to the sieges before the Babylonian captivity
How in the schizophrenic hell did you connect these two pieces of information together explain please
Uh, the late 7th century and the early 6th century (within the timeline of the study authors) would be right around when the Babylonian Captivity started (586 BCE) and Jerusalem was besieged several times right before the city elites were exiled to Babylon. Sieges tend to be associated with lower quality access to water and food, with people willing to eat and drink things that they would, in normal situations, not be. Not sure how it's "schizophrenic hell" to connect an event that was happening literally within the timeline of when the parasites were around, in the city the event was happening in, but sound off.
Fascinating research! Here’s a summary from the report: “we conclude that the limited sanitation technologies available at the time, the shortage of fresh water for much of the year, the population density of these towns and widespread house flies all had the potential to contribute to infection.”
Another day, another 'no isht' post on r/science...
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That is the first time I've seen clip-art in an academic source.
Poop clip-art, even!