From time to time workers in bogs throughout Europe accidentally expose the sunken bodies of people who died 2000 or more years ago. The bo g waters have kept the bodies from decay, sometimes even preserving the facial expression at the moment of death, and many of the bodies bear signs of violent ends. This book seeks to cast light on these Iron Age people, their lives, their religion, and the rituals they performed in unfrequented wood and groves.
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From time to time workers in bogs throughout Europe accidentally expose the sunken bodies of people who died 2000 or more years ago. The bo g waters have kept the bodies from decay, sometimes even preserving the facial expression at the moment of death, and many of the bodies bear signs of violent ends. This book seeks to cast light on these Iron Age people, their lives, their religion, and the rituals they performed in unfrequented wood and groves.
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Danish archaeologist P.V. Glob wrote this masterful survey of the human remaains and artifacts found in European bogs in 1969, and the English translation was published by Cornell University Press in 1970. The bogs of Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and other north European countries have yielded the well-preserved remains of men and women from the Iron Age, from c. 500 BC too 500 AD. The bodies, submerged in an anaerobic environment, are sometimes startlingly well preserved, down to facial expressions, fingerprints, stomach contents, and hairknots. Clothing and other artifa cts, including wagons, weapons, cauldrons, gold bracelets and neck-rings have also been found. Glob links these finds to the ancient culture of the Celts and hypothesizes that at least some of the bodies found in bogs were human sacrifices. He also draws on the writings of the Roman author Tacitus, who described some of the customs of the Germani. The books is well-illustrated with b&w photographs and includes a comprehensive bibliography. Highly recommended for those with an interest in the prehistoric culture of Europe. Glob's book is now forty years old, since which time many more finds have been made, and newer scholarly accounts have appeared. Yet it remains a very readable and thorough account.
For readers who have enjoyed Erin Hart's Irish mysteries, such as "Haunted Ground" and "Lake of Sorrows", Glob's book is very helpful background reading.
Liss
Mar 4, 2010
You need this book.
Although some of the dating and data in Prof. Glob's book have been superseded by newer methods of investigation, no other material about the bog people can match it for readability nor for the the number, quality, and sophistication of the photographs.
It is the basic book in English about this fascinating subject .