The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved

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New York Review of Books, Aug 31, 2004 - History - 216 pages

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.

 

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Contents

An Answer to a Letter
15
The Grauballe Man
37
Bog People in Denmark
63
Bog People in Other Countries ΙΟΙ
101
Copyright

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The Bog People: Iron-age Man Preserved
Peter Vilhelm Glob
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Peter Vilhelm Glob
Snippet view - 1988
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P.V. Glob
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Aarhus amongst ancient antiquity archaeological Bocksten bog bodies bog finds Bohuslän bones Borre Fen Bronze Age buried burnt Celtic Central Jutland century B.C. CESARE PAVESE Cimbri cloth colour Copenhagen covered Danish Danish bogs dead man's dead person death Dejbjerg Denmark discovery Early Iron Age excavation face fertility goddess garments Germani gods Gottorp Grauballe man's grave Gundestrup cauldron hair hand Haraldskjaer head Himmerland houses Huldre Fen human sacrifice inches long knot KUML L.P. HARTLEY legs LEONARDO SCIASCIA male murder naked National Museum neck neck-ring Nerthus Osterby P. V. Glob peasants peat peat-bog peat-cutting peat-working perhaps period pieces pinned pottery vessels preserved probably Queen Gunhild radiograph Rappendam Rebild Rendswühren Roman Iron Age rope round sacrificial deposits showed side silver skin capes Spangeholm spot spring stake stone Tacitus thousand years ago Tollund Tollund man's torc upper Vendsyssel village well-preserved Windeby woman woollen woven

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About the author (2004)

P.V. Glob (1911–1985) was the Director General of Museums and Antiquities for the State of Denmark and Director of the National Museum in Copenhagen. Although his professional interest took him from Greenland to the Arabian Gulf, his most sustained study was of his native country. In addition to The Bog People, Glob published numerous anthropological works including Denmark: An Archaeological History from the Stone Age to the Vikings and Mound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved.

Elizabeth Wayland Barber received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. Her research and publications focus on various aspects of anthropology and language. She teaches archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College.

Paul T. Barber received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. He is a research associate at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
New York Review Books classics
AuthorP.V. Glob
ContributorsElizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul Barber
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherNew York Review of Books, 2004
ISBN1590170903, 9781590170908
Length216 pages
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