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The Mysteries of the Bog People Unearthed


A new study reveals that "Bog Bodies" were part of a Millennia-old ...

Archaeologists have studied hundreds of ancient “Bog Bodies” discovered in Europe's wetlands, revealing that they were part of a millennia-old tradition.

Mysteries of bog butter uncovered - Nature

Chemical detectives have traced deposits of fat in Scottish peat bogs to foodstuffs buried by people hundreds of years ago. The 'bog butter ...

An Exploration into the Biocultural Importance of Bog Bodies

This particular poem discusses the remains of a man who had been discovered in the peat bogs of Denmark. This man has the appearance as if he ...

Bog Bodies Uncovered, Miranda Aldhouse-Green - Hereditas Nexus

Throughout northern Europe mysterious ancient bodies have been and are still being found in raised bogland, in an area as wide as Ireland in the ...

Bog bodies: New York Times story about dead bodies preserved in ...

An expansive study cited in the Times examined what the study describes as “more than 1,000 such bog people,” many of them mummified to shocking ...

The Bodies in the Bogs: An Eerie Gift From the Iron Age | TIME.com

The Tollund Man is by no means the only bog person to have been uncovered in recent decades. About a thousand others have been found in Ireland, ...

Secrets of the bog people - 27 Oct 2022 - How It Works Magazine

Hundreds of these mummies have been found in the peat bogs of England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark and northern Germany. While sometimes ...

BODIES FROM THE BOG: METAMORPHOSIS, NON-HUMAN ...

This essay is about bog bodies – the preserved remains of prehistoric humans, often interpreted as ritual killings, found in peat bogs across northwest Europe.

Why read Bog Bodies Uncovered? - Shepherd

It is time for a new book about bog bodies: the number of known bodies is growing. Lindow Man, the famous 'Pete Marsh' discovered in Cheshire in the 1980s, ...

Bog Bodies: What Are They & Why Are They So Well Preserved?

Bog bodies are naturally preserved human remains that are found in peaty wetlands, particularly in places that we call raised bogs.

Bog Bodies Uncovered - Miranda Aldhouse-Green PDF - Scribd

had its roots in the relatively recent past, a mere couple of hundred years ago. ... something dramatic to kick-start the story. ... bog for two hundred years could ...

Beyond the Mire: Unraveling the Mysteries of Bog Bodies - Pedagogue

Bog bodies are the remarkably preserved human remains that have been discovered in the peat bogs of Northern Europe. The mysterious ...

Bog Mummies Yield Secrets | ScienceDaily

Human remains yield secrets. Researchers are now probing the secrets of 'bog ... bodies found in them, though Dr. Gill-Robinson says researchers ...

Touching the past: encountering Iron Age bog bodies

Rather, as Dr Giles notes, their stories are filtered through the cultural context and beliefs of the period in which they are unearthed.

The woman from Huldremose - National Museum of Denmark

The oxygen-poor conditions in the bog meant that the woman was preserved as a bog body with skin, hair, clothes and stomach contents. She was found and dug ...

A Body in the Bog - JSTOR Daily

In 1984, for example, police oversaw the recovery of the Iron Age bog body (a naturally mummified corpse found in a peat bog) later called “ ...

Preserving the dead in: Bog bodies - Manchester Hive

Such 'haunting power' arises from the eerie lifelikeness of a bog body. Even recently, Irish curator Rolly Reed revealed that he felt 'freaked' ...

Why was a bog body found wrapped in a cloak that was 500 years ...

Bog bodies are essentially mummies - corpses preserved by peat bogs found across northern Europe. The bog, as new peat is produced, ...

Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green, ed.

Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery. Miranda Aldhouse-. Green, ed. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2015, 224 pp. $ 29.95, cloth. ISBN 978-0 ...

New Book Argues Bog Bodies Were Human Sacrifices

Since the 18th century, workers in the peat bogs of northern Europe (including Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and especially ...