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	Civilization.ca - Media - The Mysterious Bog People
		The Mysterious Bog People is the first international touring exhibition to showcase the wealth of precious objects deposited in the bogs of northwestern Europe over the course of 10,000 years, and to explore the reasons why these riches - and even human bodies - were placed in these perilous wetland environments.
		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 body - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bog bodies, also known as bog people, are preserved human bodies found in sphagnum bogs.
		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.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Bog_people (327 words)

	Bog Bodies - Bog People - Crystalinks
		Bog bodies, also known as bog people, are preserved human bodies found in sphagnum bogs.
		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).
		Bog Mummies Yield Secrets Science Daily - September 10, 2007 The secrets of 'bog mummies' some dating back 2000 years, preserved from the Iron Age with amazing detail in peat bogs of Europe...
	www.crystalinks.com /bogbodies.html (332 words)

	See the Mysterious 'Bog People' \| LiveScience
		The exhibit, "The Mysterious Bog People,'' makes the case for ritualistic sacrifice as it delves into the early history of northwestern European life around bogs through archaeology and forensic sleuthing befitting a "CSI'' episode.
		Though some bog people were likely murder victims or criminals, the exhibit argues the abundance of other items found buried in bogs makes it likely that many were sacrificed.
		Watery places such as rivers, lakes and bogs were seen as conduits to the gods, she said.
	www.livescience.com /history/ap_050707_bog_people.html (798 words)

	The People of the Bog \| Human Origins \| DISCOVER Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Not surprisingly, few people who uncovered these corpses in the past recognized their true significance, and it was only by chance that a museum would learn of a fresh discovery.
		People stop growing as a result of malnutrition, and judging from the contents of the mummies’ intestines, their diet was anything but hearty.
		For the soft tissues of a body to be preserved, it must have been placed in the bog during the winter or early spring, when the water would have been too cold for internal bacteria to rot away a body from the inside.
	discovermagazine.com /1997/aug/thepeopleofthebo1195 (2964 words)

	Bog: bog people, bog body, bog oak
		Bogs are widely distributed in cold, temperate climes, mostly in the northern hemisphere (Boreal).
		Blueberries, cranberries, cloudberries, huckleberries, wild strawberries and lingonberries are harvested from the wild in bogs.
		Bog snorkelling is popular in England and Wales and has even produced the associated sport of mountain bike bog snorkelling.
	winelib.com /wiki/Bog (1252 words)

	Irish Peatland Conservation Council - information sheets - Bog Bodies
		For thousands of years the bogs, through their extraordinary preservative qualities have kept ancient remains intact that would have otherwise perished on dry land; such as the bodies of unwary travellers trapped in the bog, or prehistoric track ways; and sometimes even whole villages and farms.
		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.
	www.ipcc.ie /infobogbodies.html (1262 words)

	Bog - Definition, explanation
		Bogs are widely distributed in cold, temperate climates, mostly in the northern hemisphere (Boreal).
		Crops of blueberries, cranberries and lingonberries are grown in bogs.
		Bog snorkeling is popular in England and Wales and has even produced the associated sport of mountain bike bog snorkeling.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/bo/bog.php (1075 words)

	Bog Turtles and Isolated Wetlands: a challenge for private sector conservation efforts - David S. Lee, The ...
		There is nothing particular in the life history of the bog turtle that makes it a candidate for its own extinction other than a restricted range, the proximity of its population centers to east coast urban sprawl, and specific habitat requirements.
		Conservation is interrelated to major problems people actually care about and are actively trying to mend such as preservation of open spaces and rural farm settings near large metropolitan centers, water quality, and the recharging of ground water.
		The bog turtle would be a good tool to introduce the effects of past climates and other events as they relate to our local landscape.
	www.chelonia.org /Articles/bogturtleswetland.htm (3805 words)

	Bog People
		Bog bodies that have been remarkably preserved in the peat bogs of Northern Europe are something of a mystery and not everyone agrees about the exact nature of the death of the people that have been found.
		Bog bodies have been very carefully analyzed right down to the contents of their stomach which provide importance evidence about the ingredients of their last meal.
		So, some bog bodies most certainly happened by accident, but others were clearly deliberately killed and thrown into the bogs perhaps as part of some sort of human sacrificial ritual.
	www.digonsite.com /drdig/mummy/5.html (410 words)

	LA Downtown News Online
		Once the bodies left the bog, however, they rapidly decomposed until all that survived was the woolen cloth in which they were wrapped.
		The exhibit is broken into three distinct phases: the first sets the scene, literally, with a simulation of the bog environment; the second examines the lives and rituals of the people who lived near the bogs over the course of roughly 10,000 years; and the third offers a hands-on lesson in scientific analysis.
		While Yde Girl and her fellow bog bodies - the Iron Age "Weerdinge couple" discovered in the Netherlands in 1904, and 1,500-year-old "Red Franz," found in Germany - are the stars of the show, their presence in the bog raises more questions than answers.
	www.ladowntownnews.com /articles/2006/05/01/entertainment/entertainment01.txt (949 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The term peat bog in common usage is not entirely redundant, although it would be proper to call these sphagnum bogs if the peat is composed mostly of acidophilic moss (peat moss or Sphagnum spp.).
		Bogs are widely distributed in cold, temperate climes, mostly in the northern hemisphere (Boreal).
		Blueberries, cranberries, cloudberries, huckleberries, wild strawberries and lingonberries are harvested from the wild in bogs.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=bog (1141 words)

	The Bog Bodies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		No one knows how these people ended up in the bogs, but it seems that the bodies are not the remains of unlucky people who fell in after losing their way.
	www.angelfire.com /oz/uv/bogbody (331 words)

	Bog Bodies at the Mummy Tombs
		Although the bog mummies were buried below the surface, immersed in the bog water, their remains did not decay.
		No one knows how many people were buried in bogs, but the number does not seem to be high based on the few bodies recovered from bogs.
		For example, Borremose Woman (on the right) appears to be a sacrifice to many scientists, but at least one believes that she may have become trapped in the bog and (as she was drowning) was attacked by predators.
	www.mummytombs.com /mummylocator/bog/mummiesbog.htm (615 words)

	Bog Man Murdered 1,800 Years Ago
		Red Franz - who takes his name from the colour his hair turned to after thousands of years in bog water - was joined by other "Bog People", including the Dutch "Girl from Yde" and a pair whose dying embrace earned them the name "the married couple".
		Recent scientific analysis of their bodies suggests that all were subjected to violent deaths and may have been consigned to the bog as sacrificesor as punishment killings.
		The exhibition, which introduces visitors to the bog people via a virtual walk through high-banked peat-cutters' channels, draws on 400 exhibits to support the view that the bogs were carefully selected as places for spiritual sacrifices by people who associated its water with the next world.
	www.rense.com /general62/bog.htm (448 words)

	Bodies of the Bogs: Introduction
		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.
		No one knows how these people ended up in the bogs, but it seems that the bodies are not the remains of unlucky people who fell in after losing their way.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/bog (396 words)

	The Curious Bog
		It was a Danish bog from which the monster Grendel emerged to attack Beowulf's castle; bogs, or heaths, of medieval Britain sheltered the marauding pagans who became known as heathens; and much later, the fiery Hound of the Baskervilles came lunging across the British moors, hungering for victims lost in the treacherous bogs.
		A bog is a stagnant pool which lacks the circulation necessary to supply nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen and lime, or to carry away dead materials.
		Although bogs are moist, the high acidity of bog water interferes with the plants' ability to absorb it.
	octopus.gma.org /Tidings/curious.html (953 words)

	Article-The Bog People- Iron-Age Man Preserved -New York Review Books Classics- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		One morning in April 1952, Danish workmen digging in a peat bog near the town of Grauballe made an astonishing discovery: the body of a man preserved in the bog, his face Xattened by the weight of the peat and his skin as brown as the earth in which he lay.
		Glob's BOG PEOPLE is a concise and illuminating study of several exquisitly preserved bodies of Iron Age inhabitant discovered northern Denmark by peat diggers in the early 1950s.Glob, who was on the scene soon after the bodies were discovered, describes the remarkable condition of the bodies, then proceeds to explore the circumstances of their deaths.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_the_bog_people_irona-1590170903.htm (910 words)

	The Mysterious Bog People
		The Mysterious Bog People examines the lives and rituals of people living near the bogs of Northwestern Europe (highlighted area on map below) from the Mesolithic Period almost 12,000 years ago to the end of the 16th century.
		Whether her death was a killing or part of a ritual is one of the mysteries surrounding the Bog People.
		The Mysterious Bog People was organized by the Drents Museum, Assen, The Netherlands, the Niedersachsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover, Germany, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau-Ottawa, Canada and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada.
	www.nhm.org /bogpeople (678 words)

	The Bog People
		Since the Tollund area in North Central Denmark is well-known for it's bog bodies, the police invited an official from the local museum to accompany them to the site.
		Since the police had never been satisfied with the explanations of a local man concerning the disappearance of his wife, who had vanished near the bog some 20 years before, they decided to question their suspect one more time.
		His book, The Bog People: Iron Age-Man Preserved, translated from the Danish, provides a detailed account of Glob's investigation of Tollund Man and other Danish bog bodies.
	www.mesh5.com /tension/febmarch/bog.htm (1006 words)

	Bog People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In most soils the fleshy parts of the body quickly decay leaving only the bones of the dead individual; but in peaty conditions it sometimes happens that the flesh and skin are preserved while, ironically, the bones of such bodies often become spongy or decay altogether.
		Hundreds of 'bog people' have been discovered by local peat cutters decades or centuries ago, and the bodies have been lost or reburied.
		Most of the bog people we know about died violent deaths, often from strangulation (hanging or garroting), blows to the head, or stabbing (and sometimes more than one of these).
	www.tornadohills.com /strange/bog_people.htm (299 words)

	Robyn's Bog Page
		Bogs are different than generic wetlands in that the soil is acidic which hosts a different array of plant life.
		How much the bog is a bog garden or a bog pond depends on how much water is over the soil and what kinds of plants that you want to keep.
		Because of the organic nature of the bog, and the tendency of any pond to fill in over time, you may have to dig out your bog pond and refill it with fresh dirt (and put the plants back in) every couple of years to keep it in the best shape and reduce odors.
	www.fishpondinfo.com /ponds/bog.htm (797 words)

	National Novel Writing Month - Forums - Character and Plot Realism Q&A - Falling into bogs
		I don't have tons of experience with bogs, but I had a friend who was a bit lost on a canoe/kayak trip and tried to portage a kayak through 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)

	Face To Face With Bog Bodies In Museum
		'Bog bodies' or 'bog people' are the remains of human bodies that have been found in bogs.
		Early people believed their lives were controlled by gods and spirits and used to make sacrifices to these gods.
		The bog people aren't the first human remains to be on show in a museum by any means.
	www.show.me.uk /site/news/STO619.html (718 words)

	Bookslut \| The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved by P.V. Glob
		Misleadingly billed as a “scientific detective story,” The Bog People is more likely to be found on an introductory archaeology course syllabus than a shelf of suspenseful best-sellers.
		He suggests that most of the bog people appear to have died in ritual practice, specifically noting sacrifices to a fertility deity.
		Although occasionally boring and certainly not the scientific thriller it’s made out to be, The Bog People capitalizes on the strange preserving qualities of peat bogs to bring ancient history to life, showing the persevering reader a different view of the past that may change his/her perspective of the evolution of human civilization.
	www.bookslut.com /nonfiction/2005_03_004673.php (731 words)

	Bog people
		Bodies and artifacts found in peat bogs are better preserved than finds in other environments because the combination of peat moss and water inhibit the growth of bacteria, and the acidity tans or mummifies skin and clothing (but dissolves bones).
		It is unknown how many bog bodies have been found in European bogs since peat started to be harvested for fuel in the 16th century and later for soil improvement.
		In recent years, the importance of protecting peat bogs as archaelogical resources and unique wildlife habitats are beginning to be recognized.
	www.skandland.com /bogmummies.htm (271 words)

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