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Author | : Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0500772983 |
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The grisly story of the bog bodies, updated via details of archaeological discovery and crime-scene techniques Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. 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. 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. They were almost certainly murder victims and, as such, their bodies and their burial places can be treated as crime scenes. The cases are cold, but this book explores the extraordinary information they reveal about our prehistoric past. Bog Bodies Uncovered updates Professor P. V. Glob’s seminal publication The Bog People, published in 1969, in the light of vastly improved scientific techniques and newly found bodies. Approached in a radically different style akin to a criminal investigation, here the bog victims appear, uncannily well-preserved, in full-page images that let the reader get up close and personal with the ancient past.
Author | : James M. Deem |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618354023 |
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Describes the discovery of bog bodies in northern Europe and the evidence which their remains reveal about themselves and the civilizations in which they lived.
Author | : Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green |
Publisher | : Tempus Publishing, Limited |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Explains "the nature of sacrifice in antiquity" and "different aspects of the subject: the notion of flesh for the gods; rites of fire and blood; the significance of defleshing heads and of skulls; suffocation ... ; the selection of victims and the evidence for the sacrifice of children." Author "puts forward some reasons for ritual murder and shows how" certain practices "illustrate the importance of place in the sacrificial rite" and "highlights the essential role of the priesthood in sacrificial murder."--Jacket.
Author | : Melanie Giles |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1526150174 |
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. But, as this book argues, the bodies must be resituated within a turbulent world of endemic violence and change. Reinterpreting the latest continental research and new discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking ‘cold case’ forensic study of Worsley Man, Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’, it brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. The book also argues that these remains do not just pose practical conservation problems but also philosophical dilemmas, compounded by the critical debate on if – and how – they should be displayed.
Author | : R. C. Turner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : |
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Archaeology.
Author | : P.V. Glob |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2004-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781590170908 |
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One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility. Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age. Includes 76 black-and-white photographs.
Author | : Erin Hart |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2003-04-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 074325452X |
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The dazzling, award-winning debut in a series that delivers mystery, romance, suspense, and fascinating forensic detail. When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery—the perfectly preserved head of a young woman with long red hair—Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence. Because the bog’s watery, acidic environment prevents decay, it’s difficult to tell how long the red-haired girl has been buried—two years, two centuries, or even much longer. Who is she? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. The red-haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the wife of a local landowner, went for a walk with her young son and vanished without a trace. Could they, too, be hidden in the bog’s treacherous depths, only to be discovered centuries from now? Or did Hugh Osborne murder his family, as some villagers suspect? Bracklyn House, Osborne’s stately home, holds many secrets, and Nora and Cormac's inquiries threaten to expose them all.
Author | : Jan Bondeson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Burial |
ISBN | : 9780393322224 |
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During the 1800s, stories filled medical journals as well as fiction (Poe's "The Premature Burial") of people being buried before they actually died. Canvassing medical records of the time, the author presents an engrossing and witty history of the fear and facts of being buried alive. Illustrations.
Author | : Rachel K. Wentz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781886104556 |
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In 1982, a backhoe operator working at what would become the new Windover Farms housing development in Titusville, Florida, uncovered a human skull. The bones of several other individuals soon emerged from the peat bog. It would be determined that the human remains uncovered at Windover were between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, making them 3,200 years older than King Tutankhamen and 2,000 years older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. This was just the beginning of an archaeological adventure that continues today.
Author | : Charlotte Wilcox |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1575054280 |
Download Mummies, Bones and Body Parts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes the wide variety of human remains, the use and abuse of them, what they reveal about life in the past, and contemporary attitudes toward the dead.