The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved (New York Review Books Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Bog People Conceived as a detective story of sorts, "The Bog People" is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of Iron Age Europe as revealed when a well-preserved body is found in a Danish bog.
Full description- Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Published: 31 August 2004
- Format: Paperback 304 pages
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- Categories: Anthropology | Early Man | General & World History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Social & Cultural History | Prehistoric Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9781590170908 ISBN 10: 1590170903
- Sales rank: 180,258
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Full description for The Bog People
One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. 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. Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age. Includes 76 black-and-white photographs.
