The Bog People: Iron-Age Man PreservedOne 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. |
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User Review - ToddSherman - www.librarything.com“ . . . when she has had her fill of the society of mortals.” I meant this to be a break from the absurd, horror, and roman-era literature I’d been researching for upcoming projects. Well, true to ... Read full review
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User Review - JBD1 - LibraryThingI read the NYRB reprint of this riveting account of the European "Bog People." Well written, and the narrative is superbly complemented by the photographs. Read full review
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Answer to a Letter | 15 |
The Grauballe Man | 37 |
Bog People in Denmark | 63 |
Bog People in Other Countries | 101 |
How They Lived | 119 |
When Death Came | 144 |