Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations
This book brings together experts from around the world to explore how sanitation affected our ancestors. By its end, readers will realise that toilets were in use in ancient Mesopotamia even before the invention of writing, and that flushing toilets with anatomic seats were a technology of ancient Greece at the time of the minotaur myth. While past views on sanitation were different to those of today, it is clear than many societies took sanitation far more seriously than previously thought
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Why we need to know about sanitation in the past / Piers D Mitchell
Assessing the impact of sanitation upon health in early human populations from hunter-gatherers to ancient civilizations, using theoretical modeling / Piers D Mitchell
Waste management in early urban Southern Mesopotamia / Augusta McMahon
Latrines and wastewater sanitation technologies in Ancient Greece / Georgios P. Antoniou and Andreas N. Angelakis
A tale of two cities : the efficacy of ancient and medieval sanitation methods / Craig Taylor
Sewers, cesspits and middens : a survey of the evidence for 2,000 years of waste disposal in York, UK / Allan R. Hall and Harry K. Kenward
Human intestinal parasites and dysentery in Africa and the Middle East prior to 1500 / Evilena Anastasiou and Piers D Mitchell
Parasitism, cesspits and sanitation in East Asian countries prior to modernization / Min Seo and Dong Hoon Shin
New World paleoparasitology / Adauto Arajo, Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Martin Fugassa, Daniela Leles, Luciana Sianto, Sheila Maria Mendonça de Souza, Juliana Dutra, Alena Iñiguez, Karl Reinhard
Parasites in European populations from prehistory to the industrial revolution / Evilena Anastasiou
A first attempt to retrace the history of dysentery caused by entamoeba histolytica / Matthieu Le Bailly and Françoise Bouchet
A better understanding of sanitation and health in the past / Piers D Mitchell