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[-] nukul4r@feddit.de 218 points 6 months ago

They could have placed the funnel anywhere else in the illustration, but they chose not to.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 28 points 6 months ago
[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 6 months ago

Is there a reason left side specifically has to be on the surface?

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Most people's rectums angle slightly to the right. Please see a doctor if you have an atypical rectum.

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

No matter whether it’s left leaning or right leaning it’s still an asshole.

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

It's probably the best place for funnel insertion at the end of the day. A hole left behind there is appropriate, you don't want to mess with any details you might get from the face, and it's way funnier this way.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The best place would probably be the first place you found. The archeologist wouldn't have any clue to the exact position the person was in and over digging could ruin the find

The person making the illustration though knew what they were doing.

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I do wonder how they knew it was a person shaped cavity vs a plain old hole in the ground.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Approximate placement I guess. Stonework would survive, wooden structures would collapse, human and animal remains would naturally form a curved cavity that's relatively strong.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

Is boofing or butt-chugging the more accurate term when it comes to molding plaster?

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You've got a high anus, a real tall boy.

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[-] swab148@startrek.website 118 points 6 months ago
[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

Turns out, after all this time, sadam just wanted to butt chug plaster

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 74 points 6 months ago

Wow! I didn’t know they were casts. I thought we found the remains as presented.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 38 points 6 months ago

I've seen them. Also up the road at Herculaneum the dock buildings are full of skeletons all huddled together.

It's really haunting.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 55 points 6 months ago

The only thing I question is why the artist who drew the illustration of the molds being filled choose to put the funnel in the body cavity's asshole.

[-] Lath@kbin.earth 3 points 6 months ago

To make it look as uncomfortable as it seems.

[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 54 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Alternate caption:

Most people dont know that boofing was actually invented by archaeologists researching Pompeii. Justice Kavanaugh was unavailable for comment.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

It'll always be plugging to me.

Also, why does the article only talk about alcohol? Seems like a huge oversight, given how easy it is to rectally absorb other stuff besides liquid.

Like ecstasy.

[-] SlapnutsGT@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

When I first started reading this I was thinking it would end up being some Pompeii didn’t happen denial craziness ha

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Luckily this isn’t xitter or facebook

[-] azi@mander.xyz 28 points 6 months ago

DIY fossilization

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

What happened to the bones? How did they know there was a body there?

[-] Lupus108@feddit.de 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the article someone linked below I found this section :

Archaeologists preserved the newly discovered remains using a variation of a technique developed by Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863. The process involves pouring liquid chalk into cavities left by decomposing bodies; this plaster fills gaps in preserved bones and teeth, creating a cast of the bodies as they looked at the moment of death.

So you find a cavity with bones and other remains in there and use it as a mold I suppose? They probably were excavating the city from the ash cover and when they found something that could be remains of a human they stopped digging and used said techniques to preserve the remains.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 31 points 6 months ago

The bones are inside the cast. They found the cavities during excavation.

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

They ordered a boneless pizza

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[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

This has to be added to the meme collage of Sadam and digging for diamonds etc.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 23 points 6 months ago

Why is the funnel in his arse. Why was that artistic choice made.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 6 months ago
[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago

Clearly ascribing to 'a hole's a hole'

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago
[-] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

This suggests to me there there might be bones inside the plaster?

[-] optissima@lemmy.ml 22 points 6 months ago

There are! The mix they used destroyed a lot of it, but you can find online many x-rays that show where the bones really are.

[-] wick@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Well that answers my question about whether today's archeologists would have done the same thing: nope.

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago
[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Preserving preserved history.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Archaeologists preserved the newly discovered remains using a variation of a technique developed by Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863. The process involves pouring liquid chalk into cavities left by decomposing bodies; this plaster fills gaps in preserved bones and teeth, creating a cast of the bodies as they looked at the moment of death.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-two-men-one-rich-and-one-enslaved-found-pompeii-180976383/

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Was it a matter of some good timing that these casts were able to be made? That is, with enough time, wouldn't the voids/cavities themselves likely collapse with the gradual shifting of the soil?

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