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Bog Bodies
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Author : Melanie Giles
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-15
Bog Bodies written by Melanie Giles and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Social Science categories.
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.
Bodies In The Bog And The Archaeological Imagination
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Author : Karin Sanders
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-12
Bodies In The Bog And The Archaeological Imagination written by Karin Sanders and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12 with History categories.
Over the past few centuries, northern Europe’s bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary—and ongoing—cultural journey. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and science as material metaphors for such concepts as trauma, nostalgia, and identity. Sigmund Freud, Joseph Beuys, Seamus Heaney, and other major figures have used them to reconsider fundamental philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and scientific concerns. Exploring this intellectual spectrum, Sanders contends that the power of bog bodies to provoke such a wide range of responses is rooted in their unique status as both archeological artifacts and human beings. They emerge as corporeal time capsules that transcend archaeology to challenge our assumptions about what we can know about the past. By restoring them to the roster of cultural phenomena that force us to confront our ethical and aesthetic boundaries, Bodies in the Bog excavates anew the question of what it means to be human.
Bodies From The Bog
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Author : James M. Deem
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1998
Bodies From The Bog written by James M. Deem and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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.
The Bog People
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Author : Peter Vilhelm Glob
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-05
The Bog People written by Peter Vilhelm Glob and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Bog bodies categories.
This classic book about the remains of iron-age people preserved in peat-bogs throws fascinating light on ancient ways of life, religion and rituals. During the last two centuries, workers in bogs throughout Europe have often accidentally exposed sunken human bodies that looked to them like incarnate devils. Actually, they were being confronted with their own ancestors of two thousand and more years ago. The bog waters have kept the bodies from decay, sometimes even preserving the facial expression at the moment of death. Most of these bog people bear signs of violent ends. Are they murder victims, sacrificial victims, or executed criminals? Acting as a consultant after the discovery of one such body, Professor Glob noted that the anguished face seemed peaceful when viewed apart from the means of death: the rope still tight around the neck. Later he perceived a connection between these bodies and a fertility goddess often portrayed with neck chains. In The Bog People, Glob unravels the dark, forbidding background of their story.
Bog Bodies Uncovered Solving Europe S Ancient Mystery
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Author : Miranda Aldhouse-Green
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2015-09-08
Bog Bodies Uncovered Solving Europe S Ancient Mystery written by Miranda Aldhouse-Green and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Social Science categories.
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.
Bog Bodies
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Author : R. C. Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Bog Bodies written by R. C. Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Antiquities categories.
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Bog Mummies
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Author : Charlotte Wilcox
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2006
Bog Mummies written by Charlotte Wilcox and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes bog mummies, along with some of the most famous bog mummies and where they have been found, how they were created, how scientists study them, and what they can teach us about the past.
The Mysterious Bog People
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Author : Canadian Museum of Civilization
language : en
Publisher: Zwolle [Netherlands] : Waanders Publishers
Release Date : 2002
The Mysterious Bog People written by Canadian Museum of Civilization and has been published by Zwolle [Netherlands] : Waanders Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Bog bodies categories.
The Bog Man And The Archaeology Of People
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Author : Don R. Brothwell
language : en
Publisher: Nicholson
Release Date : 1986
The Bog Man And The Archaeology Of People written by Don R. Brothwell and has been published by Nicholson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Art categories.
Tells the exciting story of the 1984 discovery of the bog man, a well-preserved body of a man about a thousand years old; its investigation by a multi disciplinary team of scientists intent on answering various questions on this important "forensic" archaeological find. Also examines worldwide research on preserved people, including other European bog bodies, Egyptian and Guanche mummies, Peruvian dried bodies, Scythian frozen bodies and ancient cadavers of China.
Lindow Man
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Author : Ian Mathieson Stead
language : en
Publisher: British Museum Press
Release Date : 1986
Lindow Man written by Ian Mathieson Stead and has been published by British Museum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.