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Luhasoo bog in Estonia.The mire has tussocks of heather, and is being colonised by pine trees.. This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. [1]
The location category shows the city or state in which the bog body was discovered, although some bog bodies are discovered on borders between countries. The carbon-14 dating is used to determine an age range based on examination of the half lives of carbon isotopes.
Tollund Man, Denmark, 4th century BC Gallagh Man, Ireland, c. 470–120 BC. A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BC and the Second World War. [1]
Zurich Bog This page was last edited on 1 January 2017, at 00:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Archaeologists in Northern Ireland have uncovered well-preserved remains of a teenage boy dating back up to 2,500 years - including bones, skin and possibly a kidney - in a rare find that may shed ...
With its intricate, carved-wood paneling and diamond-shaped glass panes, location scout Lori Balton thought the smoking room of the historic Andrew McNally House was just glorious.
A quaking bog, schwingmoor, or swingmoor is a form of floating bog occurring in wetter parts of valley bogs and raised bogs and sometimes around the edges of acidic lakes. The bog vegetation, mostly sphagnum moss anchored by sedges (such as Carex lasiocarpa ), forms a floating mat approximately half a meter thick on the surface of water or ...
A body was found in the trunk of a burning vehicle in California on Wednesday, authorities said. Firefighters responded shortly after 8:30 a.m. to a garage on fire at a home in Quartz Hill, the ...