Bog bodies bog death dark skeleton skull 2. Bog bodies or bog people are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogsthe bodies have been most commonly found in the northern european countries of denmark germany the netherlands united kingdom and ireland. Suggesting that the damage likely occurred after his death from pressure in the bogor possibly when a boy wearing clogs stepped on the corpse during excavation. 10 amazingly mysterious bog bodies. Bog bodies are fascinating.
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Bog bodies and the archaeological imagination university of chicago press 2009. What are bog bodies. A peat cutter found a skeleton and a plait of hair in a bog on drumkeragh mountain. This is a list of notable bog bodies in alphabetical order.
Europes famed bog bodies are starting to reveal their secrets. At present only the hair and skull of osterby man remain. The head was recovered in 1948 by 2 peat cutters but no other part of his body was ever found. 9 men 1 child of undetermined gender and 7 women.
Due to the remarkable state of the body the cause of death was easy to determine. A total of 17 bog bodies have been found so far in ireland. 10 awful ways bog bodies died. Backgrounds skull skeleton view dark hd abstract wallpapers cool imagesbogbodies death bog blue there are too many resolution options.
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This backgrounds skull skeleton view dark hd abstract wallpapers cool imagesbogbodies death bog blue is published in uncategorized category and the original resolution of wallpaper is 2048x1365 px. Carbon dating puts his death somewhere. Bog bodies or bog people are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogsthe bodies have been most commonly found in the northern european countries of denmark germany the netherlands the united kingdom and ireland. This has lead many historians to suggest that they were either sentenced to death for committing some sort of crime or were victims of ritual human sacrifice common in paganism and closely associated with kingship.