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January 10, 2003

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. Getting really down and dirty, what do anthropologists learn about ancient peoples from coprolites?

    A. These are artifacts of fossilized human dung sifted from the soils of caves, shelters and tombs, and bearing clues to how our ancestors ate and lived, says Paul Spinrad in "RE/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids."


     
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