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Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogs. The bodies have been most commonly found in the northern European countries of Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Reports of bog bodies surfaced during the early 18th century. [1]
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 Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved is an archaeological study of the bog bodies of Northern Europe written by the Danish archaeologist P.V. Glob.First published in 1965 by Gyldendal under the Danish title of Mosefolket: Jernalderens Mennesker bevaret i 2000 År, it was translated into English by the English archaeologist Rupert Bruce-Mitford and published by Faber and Faber in 1969.
Map showing Denmark–Norway and its colonial possessions. Denmark maintained a number of colonies outside Scandinavia, starting in the 17th century and lasting until the 20th century. Denmark also controlled traditional colonies in Greenland [ 23 ] and Iceland [ 24 ] in the north Atlantic, obtained through the union with Norway.
Alfred Bog - a dome bog in eastern Ontario, Canada sphagnum bog east of Ottawa in eastern Ontario; The Bog - a putrescent lowland in Saint-Henri, Quebec known for its diverse array of toads and squires; Burns Bog - in British Columbia, the largest domed peat bog in North America; Eagle Hill Bog - A small spaghnum bog on Campobello Island, New ...
Researchers used advanced genetic analyses to piece together the surprising life of “Vittrup Man,” who was killed and left in a peat bog in Denmark 5,200 years ago.
In 1915, a mysterious ancient skeleton dubbed the “Vittrup Man” was found preserved in a peat bog in northwest Denmark. Now, over a century later, researchers have finally pieced together the ...
Haraldskær Woman on display in a glass-covered sarcophagus in Vejle, Denmark. The Haraldskær Woman (or Haraldskjaer Woman) is the name given to a bog body of a woman preserved in a bog in Jutland, Denmark, and dating from about 490 BC (pre-Roman Iron Age). [1] [2] Workers found the body in 1835 while excavating peat on the Haraldskær Estate.