Originally Posted By phat

if you bury it a food deep in clay soil, forget it, archaolgists
will find it.





I can guarantee, from personal experience, that they will. Deposits in a nice dry rock shelter will preserve the best. Rest assured that you will provide valuable data for future archaeologists. I often said that if fire consumed our building, which housed the results of four seasons of digging in a large southwestern prehistoric pueblo, that if I could save just one kind of artifact, I would grab the ten or so boxes of exquisitely preserved prehistoric poo ( several hundred samples roughly 800 years old) that we had retrieved. All kinds of good information on diet, disease, DNA, blood types - don't get me started......

And then we could talk about historic outhouses. All kinds of things occur there aside from the usual material. Just don't excavate them before their time.


Edited by oldranger (01/12/12 09:07 PM)