Understanding Rural and Urban Privy Vaults: An Overview of their Utilization and Morphological Transformation Through Time.
Author(s): Patrick Durst; Dwayne Scheid
Year: 2016
Summary
Until the advent and widespread adoption of modern plumbing, the privy vault played nearly as important a role to permanent occupation as would a sustainable water source. This paper will examine the various construction methods employed while investigating the rationale behind changes in morphology. Special focus will be given to privies within the urban setting of turn of the century East St. Louis, Illinois and comparisons will be made between privy vaults found in various St. Louis, Missouri and Southern Illinois Archaeological contexts.
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Understanding Rural and Urban Privy Vaults: An Overview of their Utilization and Morphological Transformation Through Time.. Patrick Durst, Dwayne Scheid. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434636)
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Keywords
General
rural
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Sanitation
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Urban
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Early modern
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 761