Bog Mummies

Author : James M. Deem
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618354023
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies from the Bog written by James M. Deem and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : P.V. Glob
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170908
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bog People written by P.V. Glob and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500772983
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery written by Miranda Aldhouse-Green and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Melanie Giles
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526150174
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog bodies written by Melanie Giles and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charlotte Wilcox
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736861847
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog Mummies written by Charlotte Wilcox and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Karin Sanders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734048
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination written by Karin Sanders and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Siobhan Dowd
Publisher : David Fickling Books
ISBN 13 : 0375891544
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog Child written by Siobhan Dowd and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him—his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what—a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

Author : Joyce Markovics
Publisher : Unwrapped: Marvelous Mummies
ISBN 13 : 9781534180406
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog Mummies written by Joyce Markovics and published by Unwrapped: Marvelous Mummies. This book was released on 2021 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bog mummies hold fascinating secrets. They teach us hidden facts about the past. This narrative nonfiction book examines bog mummies from all over Europe. Look inside to unearth these ancient treasures! Each book includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and mummy map.

Author : Megan Cooley Peterson
Publisher : Bolt!
ISBN 13 : 9781680724073
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog Mummies written by Megan Cooley Peterson and published by Bolt!. This book was released on 2019 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover the mystery of bog mummies with diagrams, strong photos, and hi/lo text.

Author : Arthur C. Aufderheide
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521818261
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Study of Mummies written by Arthur C. Aufderheide and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents