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Dylan Sung wrote:
> "Tom McDonald" <kiltmac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1149036584.080726.293140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Peter Alaca wrote:
> >> Dylan Sung wrote: news:e5goqp$fq2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > "Tom McDonald" wrote
> >> >> Peter Alaca wrote:
> >> >>> Tom McDonald wrote:
> >> >>>> Peter Alaca wrote:
> >>
> >> >>>>> " Human feces reveal much about ancient human
> >> >>>>> dietary practices. The oldest know are from
> >> >>>>> Homo erectus at Terra Amata (France) that may
> >> >>>>> date to 300,000 ya.
> >> >>>>> "Fossilized feces" are called coprolites.
> >> >>>>> How can you tell if they are human? Human
> >> >>>>> coprolites soaked in trisodium phosphate
> >> >>>>> solution for 72 hours turn brown to black. No
> >> >>>>> other species produces this effect. "
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> (Note in a reader, from "The Evolution of Human
> >> >>>>> Nutrition" by Barry Bogin.)
> >>
> >> >>>> Good job you don't have to use the technique by which
> >> >>>> fossilized bone is differentiated from rock.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Human bone?
> >>
> >> >> Any bone.
> >> >>
> >> >>> Tell me more.
> >> >>
> >> >> It has to do with...no, I can't bring myself to say. <blush>
> >>
> >> > Blush? I can't imagine why. Please tell, pretty please!
> >>
> >> Yes Tom, please.
> >> Thomas, Thomas, Thomas!
> >
> > Well, you asked for it.
> >
> > To tell fossilized bone from rock, you...um...this part is hard...let's
> > just say it has to do with...oral skills. <furiously blushing>
> >
>
> Not the dental skills? I know that they do the rubbing test to see if a
> pearl is real or not. This is done against your tooth enamel. A real pearl
> feels rough in comparison to a glass bead apparently.
No, not dental. Do I have to come right out and say it?
One practices litholigus. <melts into a Victorian pool of shame>
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