you said MOVEMENT, thats funny.
 
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Ned Heite wrote:
 
> In Iceland, a privy is called a "kammer," which is interesting because it
> is a cognate of "chamber" and the latin root "camera," as when a
> legislative body meets privately "in camera." Icelanders are very careful
> to avoid using words with non-nordic roots, so there must be a story here
> about the movement of this cultural characteristic. Maybe one of our
> folklorist colleagues can enlighten us on the euphemisms and terminology.
>
> Has the thread gone far enough? I think not. In spite of some members'
> apparent fatigue, IMHO this thread has been an example of the higher
> purpose of such lists as this. I have saved the past two days' digests for
> future reference.
>
> Now, the next question:  Without a privy pit, how do we identify waste
> disposal sites?  At St. Johns in St. Marys City, Maryland, as I recall,
> there was a chemical footprint of a fence line that the excavators
> attributed to tavern-goers relieving themselves along the fence. Has anyone
> else found a footprint for human waste?
>
> Would there be a chemical marker for a surface privy of the sort described
> at the Moser site?  Would there be a culturally-dictated location for a
> surface (pitless) privy on a rural site?
>
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