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Unlike many other bog bodies, which are often found naked, the Huldremose Woman was found clothed with an array of accessories. Analysis of these items, including the rare evidence of plant fibre textile, has shown that peoples of the Scandinavian Early Iron Age had knowledge of and used a wide but previously unrecognized range of textile weaving and dyeing technologies, as well as animal skin ...
The man was buried at a bog (likely once a lake) at the foot of an ancient hill that was used for kingship ceremonies. A 2014 documentary suggested that he was a king or prince who was sacrificed by druids due to poor weather or harvests. These ancient tribes may have believed that this was caused by the failure of the king and he was ...
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]
The woman was around 25–30 years old at her time of death. The Meenybradden woman's body has a 14 C-date of 1050-1410 CE, but the cloak that her remains were wrapped in is of a style dated to the 16th–17th century, leading archaeologists to suggest that humic contamination may have affected the accuracy of the 14 C-date. [102]
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Teacher, Driving Home From Work, Pulls Over To Save Choking 100-Year-old Woman With Heimlich Maneuver Wrap your arms around their torso from the back. Make a fist with one hand and grab it with ...
Lindow Woman and Lindow I are the names given to the partial remains of a female bog body, discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss, near Wilmslow in Cheshire, England, on 13 May 1983 by commercial peat-cutters. [1] The remains were largely a skull fragment, [2] which was missing its jaw, but with soft tissue and hair attached. [1]
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