08-12-2016 21:11 via theguardian.com

Drunk history: the weirdest artifacts from New York's wild past

A repository in Manhattan houses over one million archaeological items found in the city from saucepan-sized oysters to a cow bone doucheIf you can say one thing about New York public officials in the early 1800s, it’s that they knew how to party. The extent of their raucous boozing and debauchery is being carefully catalogued inside the newly opened Nan A Rothschild Research Center, a repository in midtown Manhattan housing over one million archaeological artifacts from New York City&rsqu
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