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Jesse Casana, professor and chair of the department of anthropology “ Share May 03, 2021 by Amy Olson An analysis of fecal samples shows New England rural elites had parasitic infections. In June 2019, the Digging Dartmouth project is set up on the lawn outside Dartmouth Library's Baker-Berry Library and the former site of the Ripley/Choate House. (Photo by Eli Burakian '00) Jesse Casana, professor and chair of the department of anthropology (on the left); Keira Byno '19; and Elise Laugier, a graduate student student in Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society (standing in the privy); ...

Researchers in New England excavated an outhouse and rehydrated centuries-old poop to discover that fecal parasites impacted more people than they thought.

200-Year-Old Poop Reveals Even The Rich Had Parasitic Infections KEY POINTS They analyzed three fecal samples found in the privy They found evidence of parasite eggs in all three samples An affluent family's home once stood in the area Even wealthy people weren't spared from parasitic infections in the 19th  century. That's what researchers discovered after finding parasite eggs in 200-year-old poop collected from an area where an affluent family's home once stood. Parasitic infections were quite common in urban areas in North America in the early 19th century, Dartmouth College said in a...

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—According to a statement released by Dartmouth College, evidence of parasitic infection has been found in a privy that belonged to an affluent, nineteenth-century rural household. The layers of waste in the stone-lined privy contained fine imported ceramics, exotic peanut and coffee remains, mineral water bottles, medicine bottles for digestive ailments, and fecal samples. Jesse Casana of Dartmouth College said the ineffective medicine held in the bottles may have been intended to treat symptoms associated with parasitic infections. Located in fro...

Before the development of advanced plumbing, internal parasites were no respecters of status. Rich and poor, city and country, everyone was subject to unpleasant digestive infestations, at least if the outcome of one dig is to be relied upon. All too often history and archaeology focus on the lives of the wealthy few, ignoring conditions for the vast majority of our ancestors. One exception has been the study of previous generations' defecation. Fecal samples have told us quite a lot about by-gone eras, but the focus has been on the poop of poorer city dwellers whose dungheaps are easier to f...