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	Civilization.ca - Media - The Mysterious Bog People
		This bog body is known as "Red Franz", and was found in 1900 in a bog near Neu Versen (Germany).
		The bogs of ancient times were mystical and dangerous places, covering vast expanses of northwestern Europe but inaccessible in daily life because of the treacherously soft ground.
		The history, biology and preservation properties of bogs are clearly demonstrated in the exhibition.
	www.civilization.ca /media/docs/fsbog01e.html (1356 words)

	Bog - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bogs are widely distributed in cold, temperate climates, mostly in the northern hemisphere (Boreal).
		Some bogs have preserved ancient oak logs useful in dendrochronology and they have yielded extremely well-preserved bog bodies, with organs, skin and hair intact, such as Tollund Man and Lindow man, buried there thousands of years ago after apparent Celtic human sacrifice.
		Crops of blueberries, cranberries and lingonberries are grown in bogs.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Peat_bog (752 words)

	Bog body
		A bog body is a preserved human body found in a peat bog.
		Preserved bodies of humans and animals have been discovered in bogs in England, northern Germany and Denmark.
		Forensic examinations of some bog bodies suggest they were ritually slain and placed in the bog as part of the ritual, possibly as an execution, possibly as a human sacrifice.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bo/Bog_body.html (207 words)

	Bog body (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A bog body is a preserved human body found in a sphagnum bog.
		Preserved bodies of humans and animals have been discovered in bogs in England, northern Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark.
		Forensic examinations of some bog bodies suggest they were ritually slain and placed in the bog as part of the ritual, possibly as an execution or as a human sacrifice.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/bo/bog_body.html (233 words)

	Bog body - Definition, explanation
		Bog bodies, also known as bog people, are preserved human bodies found in sphagnum bogss.
		Forensic examinations of some bog bodies suggest they were ritually slain and placed in the bog as part of the ritual, possibly as an execution for a crime, as a human sacrifice (See also: Celts and human sacrifice), or even as a primitive method of embalming significant individuals (as with the "mummies" of Cladh Hallan).
		Some bog bodies, such as Tollund Man from Denmark, have been found with the rope used to strangle them still around their necks.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/bo/bog_body.php (0 words)

	NOVA \| The Perfect Corpse \| Bog Bodies of the Iron Age (non-Flash) \| PBS
		More than a thousand bog bodies and skeletons have come to light, and scientists now have the means to study the remains in such detail that they can, in a sense, resurrect these ancient people.
		Other bog bodies also had their hair cut when they were killed.
		Only five yards from her body the corpse of a man lay buried, and some experts suggest that the two were punished for an adulterous affair.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/bog/iron-nf.html (0 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Under certain conditions, the acidity of the water, the cold temperature and the lack of oxygen combine to tan the body's skin: skeletal preservation is very rare in these bodies, as the acid in the peat dissolves the calcium carbonate of bone.
		The bog bodies seem consistently to have been members of the upper class: their fingernails are manicured and tests on hair protein routinely record good nutrition.
		The face of one bog body, Yde Girl, was reconstructed in 1993 by professor Richard Neave of Manchester University using CT scans of her head.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=bog_body (983 words)

	Digital Medievalist: Scéla
		There are a number of well-known bog bodies; the most recent, and the one we have the best data on, is Lindow Man.
		But recently a body was found in a peat bog in in the town of Uchte, in Lower Saxony (that's in the northern part of Germany).
		It's a shame the body is in pieces—nonetheless, we might still learn how she died, whether she was killed as a sacrifice, and perhaps data about how she lived, based on things like her tooth enamel and clothing.
	www.digitalmedievalist.com /news/2005/06/new-bog-body-girl-of-uchter-moor.html (235 words)

	Bog Summary
		Some bogs have preserved ancient oak logs useful in dendrochronology, and they have yielded extremely well-preserved bog bodies, with organs, skin, and hair intact, such as Tollund Man and Lindow man, buried there thousands of years ago after apparent Celtic human sacrifice.
		Crops of blueberries, cranberries and lingonberries are grown in bogs.
		Bog snorkelling is popular in England and Wales and has even produced the associated sport of mountain bike bog snorkelling.
	www.bookrags.com /Bog (1571 words)

	Irish Peatland Conservation Council - information sheets - Bog Bodies
		Bogs could sometimes be crossed on foot, by jumping from one drier hummock to another, but on many occasions and seasons of the year the bogs were impassable.
		Bogs can be treacherous places and it is likely that some of the bodies found in the peat were those of travellers who slipped into bog pools and were trapped.
		The naked body was wrapped in a woollen cloak, of a style worn in the Middle Ages, which served as a shroud.
	www.ipcc.ie /infobogbodies.html (1262 words)

	The Tollund Man - More Bog Bodies
		The very next year, in 1947, another bog body was discovered in Borremose - yet again the body of a man. After the excavation was over you could see a thin layer of flakes of birch bark which the dead had been resting on.
		Half of an earthenware vessel was discovered next to the body's knee, and by the neck and chest were an amber bead, a round disc made of bronze (with a diameter of 21 to 22 milimetres) and two pieces of leather string.
		In 1835 a bog body was discovered by the estate Haraldskær which was believed to be the body of the Norwegian viking queen Gunhild.
	www.tollundman.dk /flere-moselig.asp (993 words)

	BURIED IN THE BOGS
		These are the "bog bodies." The individual bog bodies show a great degree of variation in their state of preservation, from skeletons, to well-preserved complete bodies, to isolated heads and limbs.
		Many people find it hard to imagine that the dark brown bog bodies were once lightly colored human beings of flesh and blood who lived in timber houses, brought up children, looked after their cattle, grew crops, made clothes, prepared meals, and manufactured tools.
		Wijnand van der Sanden, a government archaeologist for Drenthe Province, the Netherlands, is one of the foremost authorities on bog bodies.
	geology.wcedu.pima.edu /~shubble/Bogpeople5.html (1262 words)

	News and Views March April 2004 - University of Bradford
		Visitors to Gallery II were able to explore the curious phenomenon of 'bog bodies' and bog lands through a variety of media including photographs, performances and talks by professionals in the fields of archaeology and the arts.
		Visitors were able to view the original 'bog body photographs', which were taken in the 1950s by Lennart Larsen of the National Museum of Denmark.
		The aim was to illuminate the bog body discoveries for new audiences combining a powerful mix of art, history, literature and forensics.
	www.brad.ac.uk /admin/pr/march2004/bog.php (0 words)

	Peatlands \| Archaeology \| Bog bodies
		Other bodies are clearly the victims of murder by a blow to the head, throat cutting or beheading.
		Due to mechanised peat-cutting in modern times bodies are now frequently identified in segmented parts, such as the feet, the head or part of the trunk.
		There are records of 89 bog bodies found in Ireland since the early 19th century, 25 of which are from Northern Ireland.
	www.peatlandsni.gov.uk /archaeology/bog.htm (313 words)

	bogbodies
		Unfortunately, 1889 newspaper reports are all that remain of the bog bodies, two male, one female, which peat cutters found on the Mosses.
		In c.1867, in a treacherous part of the bog, Henry Simpson and Thomas Woodward found the body of a young man, partly covered by a leather apron, “2 - 3 feet” down in the peat, in a sitting position near a three-legged stool.
		In c.1877 the body of a woman was found by George Heath, at a similar depth.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /whixallweb/bogbodies.htm (259 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Iron Age 'bog bodies' unveiled
		The bodies, which are both male and have been dated to more than 2,000 years old, probably belong to the victims of a ritual sacrifice.
		In common with other bog bodies, they show signs of having been tortured before their deaths.
		From his studies on these bog bodies and others, Ned Kelly, keeper of Irish antiquities at the National Museum of Ireland, has developed a new theory which explains why so many remains are buried on important political or royal boundaries.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/4589638.stm (733 words)

	BBC - History - Meeting the Bog Bodies
		It has been 20 years since the last bog body was found, at Lindow Moss in Cheshire.
		A bog body find is an archaeological sensation, but Timewatch quickly secured exclusive access, preventing the news from leaking out to the wider world.
		It is with huge trepidation that I head off to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin to meet the team into whose hands the two bog bodies have come.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/programmes/timewatch/diary_bog_01.shtml (208 words)

	Designated Areas - NNRs - Isle of May (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The colourful Sphagnum carpet is the powerhouse of the bog.
		White tufts of bog cotton waving above the moss are easy to spot, as are the pinks of heaths and heathers.
		Bodies have been found in bogs all over Scotland, preserved in the acidic peat.
	www.snh.org.uk /publications/on-line/designatedareas/nnrs/blawhornmoss/blawhornmoss.asp (556 words)

	The bog body as mnemotope: nationalist archaeologies in Heaney and Tournier - Seamus Heaney, Michel Tournier - Critical ...
		The bog body as mnemotope: nationalist archaeologies in Heaney and Tournier - Seamus Heaney, Michel Tournier - Critical Essay
		He had been moved by Glob's lyrical descriptions of the sometimes beautifully preserved Iron-Age bodies that turned up from time to time in the peat-bogs of Northwestern Europe, and was intrigued by the archaeologist's recourse to theories of ritual human sacrifice in order to explain their presence in the bogs.
		In a word, with their peculiar capacity to compress time, bog bodies are exemplary mnemotopes and speak of a life anchored in an everyday that was then bu t is also now.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_36/ai_89985878 (834 words)

	National Novel Writing Month - Forums - Character and Plot Realism Q&A - Falling into bogs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From what I remember - many of the 'bog bodies' are believed to have died/been killed elswhere and been placed/buried in the bog leaving the impression that it is rare to accidentally drown in a bog.
		PV Glob's Bog Bodies (no the name is not a joke!) recorded at least one Scandinavian bog body that was probably an accident, with a discussion of the hazards.
		A bog seems like great terrain for guerrilla warfare - where standard armies are at a huge disadvantage to small groups of locals who can use the natural landforms to their advantage.
	www.nanowrimo.org /modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=27367&forum=201 (1839 words)

	Bog body (Site not responding. Last check: )
		More than a thousand bog bodies have been found, as a result of peat-cutting activities, in regions associated with the Celts of the Iron Age; the earliest bog body, that of Koelbjerg Woman, has been radiometrically dated at about 10,000 years old; she may simply have drowned.
		However, during the 20th century, forensic and medical technology was developed which allow researchers to more closely determine the age of the burial, through radiocarbon dating, their age at death and many other details.
		Many bog bodies show signs of being brutally killed, stabbed, bludgeoned, hanged and strangled, more than once by all three means.
	www.guideofpills.com /Bog_body.html (879 words)

	Bogs in the Classroom
		It is the lack of oxygen in the waterlogged peat of bogs that slows down decay and ensures that finds made of materials such as leather, wood, bone and textiles survive in excellent condition.
		The body was lifted in a block of peat and taken to the hospital mortuary at nearby Macclesfield, where the local coroner had to be satisfied that it was not that of a recent murder victim!
		Once out of the bog the body would have shrunk rapidly, hardened and disintegrated but the British Museum solved this problem by using the freeze-drying method of conservation, so that now the remains of this famous bogman can be displayed for all the world to see.
	www.ipcc.ie /bichistorypr1.html (1540 words)

	Mummies, Mugs, and Museum Shops
		The CMC placed the contorted head of the Yde bog body in a prominent position on one of the flags intended to catch the attention of people passing by the museum.
		The Yde bog body, the remains of a 16-year-old girl who lived around 2,000 years ago, has during its time in the New World degenerated from a human being to a logo.
		We may intuitively feel that representations of a perfectly preserved bog body are more acceptable than those of bog bodies with a distorted or poorly preserved face, or bog bodies showing clear evidence of how the individuals concerned met their death.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/bog/exhibit.html (0 words)

	Worldbuilding (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The true story of the discovery of a bog body in England in 1984 and the subsequent archeological investigation it set off, this book intrigued me. The image of a human explorer uncovering an alien bog body on another world first started to emerge.
		But the speculation remained with me even after the conversation was long forgotten, and the epiphany came that the alien bog body haunting that scene in my mind should be this mythical third sex.
		From two disparate sources, then, came a first scene, and the hint of what it all meant: an alien bog body, neither male nor female, which held a secret to the survival of the humans who found it.
	www.farrellworlds.com /worldbuilding2.html (458 words)

	Bog-bodies-lnks
		Bog bodies are bodies preserved because of the characteristics and minerals in the bogs which the bodies got buried in.
		Early Iron Age societies cremated their dead, only bog bodies had a different burial - perhaps the gods would be appeased by a whole body only and not by burnt bones.
		According to the Jomsvikinga saga she was killed and drowned in a bog at the instigation of the Danish king Harald Blatand (Blue Tooth).
	www.florilegium.org /files/LIFE-STEPS/bog-bodies-lnks.html (1596 words)

	The Tollund Man - The Bog
		The first time it happened was in 1927 when a bog body was discovered.
		The second time was in 1938 when the well-preserved body of Elling Woman was discovered, and finally the third time in 1950 when the most well-preserved of all bog bodies, the Tollund Man, was discovered.
		The plant called peat moss, which dominates the bog, gives off a small amount of acid which mixes with the water and combines with acid stemming from the decomposition of plant residues and thus humic acid - also known as "bog acid" - is created.
	www.tollundman.dk /mosen.asp (865 words)

	Bog Bodies of Europe
		As early as this may seem, bodies were undoubtedly discovered even before then, by the first people to cut peat from the bogs for fuel; unfortunately, as there is no mention of them in the literature of that period, we know nothing of these finds.
		Bogs are areas of soft, waterlogged land, usually containing large amounts of organic acids and aldehydes in layers of Sphagnum and peat.
		People have long theorized that a majority of these bodies represent the remains of sacrificial victims or else punished individuals; many of the bodies were found without any indication of clothing or had oddly close-cropped hair; occasionally, evidence such as bits of rope or unhealed wounds suggested their lives had come to a violent end.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects97/dentep/dentep.html (0 words)

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