An insect fauna from a modern cesspit and its comparison with probable cesspit assemblages from archaeological sites |
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Authors: | PJ Osborne |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England |
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Abstract: | The insects recovered by sampling a present day disused cesspit located in south Shropshire are compared with similar assemblages from two sites in 16th century Worcester, and, as controls, with faunas from a modern compost heap and garden soil. A simple experiment is described designed to test whether stored product pest species could have arrived in archaeological deposits considered to be the sites of cesspits after having been eaten with the foodstuffs they were infesting. |
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Keywords: | Coleoptera stored product pests cesspit faeces sewage diet |
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