Just because your father called you son; don't think your so bright .

if my neighbors dog (bone crusher) uses my yard to leave his message 

; im sure humans were pretty much in the same frame of mind for a million years plus

Yet I too lived in New Hampshire

 and they were proud of the fact they used corn pones before the advent of sears Roebuck pages

so I take kind comfort that there was always improvments being made

; the privy was not always outside ; a turkish toilet confirms that ;also in 19th cent Greenwhich village  there were "dry " two story privies where the waste fell by gravity down a bricked up channel that was shoveled out like an ash bin .This systemis still in use today in North Africa

small rooms  in america existed before plumbing ; as they had chamber pots or thunderbuckets (as we called them in the mines )

Missing now but quite common were the chairs that had holes cut in them ; no one wanted them as antiques so they disappeared

For real antiquity on the subject  I toured a two story masonry  ruin  on Santorini  Greece  that had second story plumbing

Santorini  formerly known in ancient times as (Thera) ; the black sand island that blew up in an earthquake and destroyed the Mioan culture  that gave rise to Plato's   much ballyhooed  Atlantis

. This  second floor plumbing of this one dwelling with frescoes of children riding bulls and dolphins

had pipes that worked by   roof cistern (now missing )

; and what was unique was that the waste water from  the second floor;

  ran down  using ceramic drains  into another below grade cistern outside (for the solids )

then the brown water ran into  open sewer made of cobble stone .down the middle of the street

(city storm sewer )

This was 1500 bc ; so Im not sure what the union thought or if they had delta faucets

but it beat having to wash your socks outside on a rock  

 

Living here as I do ; there are many locals that remember when the first plumbing and the first electricity

came through (let alone telephone ) ;WPA created an ambitious program to fabricate and build for free

poured concrete two holers for every farm and residence ...man that was living