Bog Bodies Uncovered
Bog Bodies Uncovered Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. Most of these ancient swamp victims have been discovered in…
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Bog Bodies Uncovered
Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. Most of these ancient swamp victims have been discovered in regions with large areas of raised bog: Ireland, northwest England, Denmark, the Netherlands, and northern Germany. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist's dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, soft tissue, and internal organs--even their brains--survive.
The cases are cold, but this book explores the extraordinary information they reveal about our prehistoric past.Bog Bodies Uncovered updates Professor P. V. They were almost certainly murder victims and, as such, their bodies and their burial places can be treated as crime scenes. Glob's seminal publication The Bog People, published in 1969,