Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

From Brewskie to Booties

“These ladies are shaking their butts ­— on a butt.”
“These ladies are shaking their butts ­— on a butt.”

Modern civilization is butt civilization! Music, cities, writing, and religion all have ties to ancient booty grazing.

Ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and others each exalted the backside in interesting, and even strange, ways. Back-loving butthunters from the Amazon, for example, did the amazing trick of pricking bottoms with poisonous crackthorns to obtain a greater degree of swell.

Learn fascinating stories and see phenomenal artifacts that reveal the links between butts and culture, such as the solid gold ass-crown of an Inca king. Looks like it wasn’t always a bad thing to be a butthead!

Sponsored
Sponsored

Join us for all of our jiggles:

January 16, 2014: Past Posterior. What did Ancient Egyptians and Sumerians have in common? Butts! Explore the San Diego Museum of Man’s BUTTology exhibit while surveying the ancients’ devotion to “salt shakers.” Ancient cultures from around the world treasured many types of tushies and today modern fashion honors those classic forms. Join the museum and exhibit guest-host Sir Mix-A-Lot for historical appreciations of these special slabs.

March 20, 2014: Flavors in Motion: Comparing Butts & Food. Discover the San Diego Museum of Man’s BUTTology exhibit while noshing on the foods most frequently invoked in discussions of derrières! From beefcake to pancake, from onion to apple, you’ll say Yum to the Bum!

Local flavor provided by Scripps Ranch High School!

June 19, 2014: Hip-hopfest at the Museum. Tour the San Diego Museum of Man’s newest exhibit, BUTTology, and experience Hip-Hopfest! We’ll celebrate hip-hop’s devotion to the goodness of glutes while exploring the role of music in dropping it low. Join the museum and local cover bands for this exciting evening, including a live performance of T-Pain’s “Hi-lo, Hi-lo, It’s Off to Twerk We Go.”

The latest copy of the Reader

Please enjoy this clickable Reader flipbook. Linked text and ads are flash-highlighted in blue for your convenience. To enhance your viewing, please open full screen mode by clicking the icon on the far right of the black flipbook toolbar.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Live Five: Sitting On Stacy, Matte Blvck, Think X, Hendrix Celebration, Coriander

Alt-ska, dark electro-pop, tributes, and coastal rock in Solana Beach, Little Italy, Pacific Beach
Next Article

Now what can they do with Encinitas unstable cliffs?

Make the cliffs fall, put up more warnings, fine beachgoers?
“These ladies are shaking their butts ­— on a butt.”
“These ladies are shaking their butts ­— on a butt.”

Modern civilization is butt civilization! Music, cities, writing, and religion all have ties to ancient booty grazing.

Ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and others each exalted the backside in interesting, and even strange, ways. Back-loving butthunters from the Amazon, for example, did the amazing trick of pricking bottoms with poisonous crackthorns to obtain a greater degree of swell.

Learn fascinating stories and see phenomenal artifacts that reveal the links between butts and culture, such as the solid gold ass-crown of an Inca king. Looks like it wasn’t always a bad thing to be a butthead!

Sponsored
Sponsored

Join us for all of our jiggles:

January 16, 2014: Past Posterior. What did Ancient Egyptians and Sumerians have in common? Butts! Explore the San Diego Museum of Man’s BUTTology exhibit while surveying the ancients’ devotion to “salt shakers.” Ancient cultures from around the world treasured many types of tushies and today modern fashion honors those classic forms. Join the museum and exhibit guest-host Sir Mix-A-Lot for historical appreciations of these special slabs.

March 20, 2014: Flavors in Motion: Comparing Butts & Food. Discover the San Diego Museum of Man’s BUTTology exhibit while noshing on the foods most frequently invoked in discussions of derrières! From beefcake to pancake, from onion to apple, you’ll say Yum to the Bum!

Local flavor provided by Scripps Ranch High School!

June 19, 2014: Hip-hopfest at the Museum. Tour the San Diego Museum of Man’s newest exhibit, BUTTology, and experience Hip-Hopfest! We’ll celebrate hip-hop’s devotion to the goodness of glutes while exploring the role of music in dropping it low. Join the museum and local cover bands for this exciting evening, including a live performance of T-Pain’s “Hi-lo, Hi-lo, It’s Off to Twerk We Go.”

Comments
Sponsored

The latest copy of the Reader

Please enjoy this clickable Reader flipbook. Linked text and ads are flash-highlighted in blue for your convenience. To enhance your viewing, please open full screen mode by clicking the icon on the far right of the black flipbook toolbar.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Classical Classical at The San Diego Symphony Orchestra

A concert I didn't know I needed
Next Article

Undocumented workers break for Trump in 2024

Illegals Vote for Felon
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

This Week’s Reader This Week’s Reader