The bog people : Iron-Age man preserved

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The bog people : Iron-Age man preserved

P.V. Glob ; translated from the Danish by Rupert Bruce-Mitford ; introduction by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber

(New York review books classics)

New York Review Books, c2004

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Mosefolket

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Mosefolket

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-197) and index

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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.

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