Bog Mummies
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Author |
: James M. Deem |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0618354026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780618354023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies from the Bog by : James M. Deem
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 |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2004-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1590170903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781590170908 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bog People by : P.V. Glob
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 |
: Charlotte Wilcox |
Publisher |
: Capstone |
Total Pages |
: 54 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 073686184X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780736861847 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Synopsis Bog Mummies by : Charlotte Wilcox
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 |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2009-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226734040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226734048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination by : Karin Sanders
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 |
: Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
Publisher |
: Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2015-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780500772980 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0500772983 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery by : Miranda Aldhouse-Green
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 |
: Natalie Jane Prior |
Publisher |
: Allen & Unwin Academic |
Total Pages |
: 95 |
Release |
: 1996-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1864482435 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781864482430 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bog Bodies by : Natalie Jane Prior
An exploration of preserved human remains tells the stories of druid sacrifices found in the bogs of Britain, mummies from Greenland and Egypt, a five thousand-year-old man frozen by the glaciers of the Italian Alps, and the mysterious Knight of St. Bees.
Author |
: Joyce Markovics |
Publisher |
: Unwrapped: Marvelous Mummies |
Total Pages |
: 24 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1534180400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781534180406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bog Mummies by : Joyce Markovics
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 |
: Melanie Giles |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 546 |
Release |
: 2020-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526150172 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526150174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bog bodies by : Melanie Giles
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 |
: Megan Cooley Peterson |
Publisher |
: Bolt! |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 168072407X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781680724073 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis Bog Mummies by : Megan Cooley Peterson
Uncover the mystery of bog mummies with diagrams, strong photos, and hi/lo text.
Author |
: Arthur C. Aufderheide |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 636 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521818265 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521818261 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Scientific Study of Mummies by : Arthur C. Aufderheide
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