ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some examples of how to integrate toilets creatively into the classroom teaching of archaeology. In particular, I report on how to use toilet paper as an inexpensive tool to simulate the passing of geological or human history, and how to use public toilets to understand material culture as a force in constituting individuals and social groups. The teaching goals of these two examples are obviously quite distinct. They are not intended to exhaust the kinds of creative uses to which toilets, as basic and accessible parts of our material world, can be put in innovative teaching at the university level.
