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Courtesy of Adam Aja

Archaeology Scatalogy: At ASOR’s annual meeting, Harvard University’s Adam Aja surveyed the archaeological evidence concerning relieving oneself. The drawing of an image from a seventh-century B.C.E. Cypriot vase painting demonstrates a posture familiar to sailors: Hanging one’s rear off the ship’s stern, or “caulking the stern” in modern nautical parlance.