Research For What Did People Use Before Toilet Paper?
The reason this post on What Did People Use Before Toilet Paper? came to be was because I wanted to know how in the ancient times did people do their business so that my story would be more accurate.
This of course led me down a rabbit hole and I ended up finding out a lot more. I thought to myself I should make this a post because I might need this info again. It’ll also be convenient to have it all in place. However, at the time I forgot to include sources so I can’t recall all of them exactly.
But I do know that it was a mixed of articles on artifacts, historical documents and old texts, such as literature, personal accounts like journals and so on, because they contained brief mentions of what the people used as toilet paper in them, etc.
Sapien.org - What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
The Washington Post Company - Ever Wondered about the history of toilet paper?
Phys.org - What toilets and sewers tell us about ancient Roman sanitation
Farmers' Almanac - The Hole In The Farmers’ Almanac
Liberty Hall Museum - The Colonial Privy (Toilet) at Liberty Hall Museum [PDF]
University of Nebraska Press: Center for Great Plains Studies - Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition | A Natural History | Chapter 2
North Carolina Cooperative Extension: Hoke County Center - Cowboy’s Toilet Paper
Smithsonian Magazine - These Archaeologists Were Looking for Tombs, But They Were Totally Psyched to Find Toilets
ResearchGate - Toilet hygiene in the classical era [PDF]
The University of Texas at Austin - American Wasteland: A Social and Cultural History of Excrement, 1860-1920 by Daniel Max Gerling [PDF]
Cottonelle - What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?
Living History Farm - 1930s Farm Life: Indoor Plumbing
Lancaster Farming - Pondering the Privy: A History of Outhouses
National Park Service - Outhouse-Sauer Beckmann Farm [Picture]
Penn State University Libraries - The Greatest Missed Luxury: Scott Toilet Tissue
Ancient Accounts of India and China by Eusebius Renaudot [Book]
Ars Technica - 2,000-year-old toilet paper gives us a whiff of life on the Silk Road in China
Archaeology Southwest - Of Poop, Toilet Paper, and Worms…
The Plumber - Toilet Paper: The History ‘Behind’ It
Medievalists.net - The Medieval Invention of Toilet Paper
World History Encyclopedia - Toilets in a Medieval Castle
Corinium Museum - Roman Toilet Paper
The Vintage News - What Did People Use Before Toilet Paper?
CBS News - Toilet Paper Factoids
Kapiolani Community College - Where’s The Toilet Paper?
Wellcome Collection - How Brits went soft on toilet paper [Pictures]
Smithsonian Magazine - Ancient “Poop Sticks” Offer Clues to the Spread of Disease Along the Silk Road
Dig It With Raven - What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?
Scientific American - Toilet Issue: Anthropologists Uncover All the Ways We've Wiped
Italy Magazine - Ancient Romans May Have Used Flat Stones As Toilet Paper
Vintage Ad Browser - Toilet Paper
Discover Magazine - What the Earliest Toilets Say About How Human Civilization Has Evolved
Japan This! - Japanese Toilets
The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome) by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow [Book]
BBC - A potted history of the toilet
JSTOR - The Early History of Human Excreta
Popular Science - Nature’s best toilet paper substitutes
The Mariners' Museum and Park - A Head of Its Time: A Brief History of Going at Sea
Museums Victoria - Immigration: Journeys to Australia - Privies & Hygiene
RealClear Science - What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) - Ancient Toilet Hygiene [Video]
The Open University - Health and Wellbeing in the Ancient World: What did the Romans use for toilet paper?
National Geographic - What did people do before toilet paper?
National Museum of American History - Toilet
Berkeley University of California: Archaeological Research Facility - The Archaeology of Toileting
Ancient Origins - No Toilet Paper! Do Any of these Ancient Methods Work for You?
LiveScience - What did people use before toilet paper was invented?
HISTORY.com - All the Ways We’ve Wiped: The History of Toilet Paper and What Came Before
Youtube - The Remarkable History of Toilet Paper | Told by The History Guy | History at Home [Video]
Country Life - Curious Questions: What did people use before toilet paper?
Reader’s Digest - This Is What People Used Before Toilet Paper Existed
Free Library of Philadelphia - Unrolling the History of Toilet Paper
Hearthstone Historic House Museum - Flushed with Success: Milestones in Toilet Paper Development
Academia - Evolution of Toilets Worldwide Through the Millennia [PDF]
Ohio State University - Common Mullein- Mother Nature's Answer to Our Toilet Paper Shortage?
Gastrointestinal Society - The History of Toilet Paper
Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences: Powerhouse Collection - Toilet roll made in Australia
Minnesota State University: Centennial Student Union - Potty Talk: Understanding International Bathroom Etiquette
Health Digest - What Did People Use Before Toilet Paper?
BidetGenius - Complete History of the Bidet (Infographic)
Religion Unplugged - Islamic And Hindu Customs Wipe Out Need For Toilet Paper
Science Daily - Biblical Latrine: Ancient Parasites Show That Cleanliness May Have Been Next To Sickliness
