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The Mystery of the Bog Men
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How Did These People Die?
When Did These People Die?
- Iron Age (Neolithic Period)
- brutally injured more than once
- Hanged, decapitated, beaten about the head, stabbed, naked, head wrenched sharply to the left, marks of deliberate violence, nose broken, skull shattered, abdomen sliced open
- Too mutilated to be sure
Dr. Caroline Wilson used forensic technology to piece together an estimated face of a 2,500 year old bog man
How was this Determined?
- Peat: a deposit of partially decayed dead plants
Where Were These Bodies Found?
Theories
- Peat uses up the oxygen
Sources:
Information:
Lalor, Brian. The Encyclopedia of Ireland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Print.
Pictures:
Savannah Bog:
http://www.airninja.com/pictures/savannah/savannah_bog.jpg
Bog Man Laying Down:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://nematode.unl.edu/Bogman.jpg&imgrefurl
Man in the Sand:
http://www.ecu.edu/english/tcr/26-3/bogman.JPG
Sliced Body:
http://www.croghancommunity.ie/Images/bogbody/p009_1_02.jpg
Estimated Face:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressoffice/contact/2006/february/bogman.html
Hanged Man:
http://annoyzview.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/bog_feature.jpg
biogenic landforms consisting of a mat of living vegetation. Look similar to a swamp.
- Carbon dating, forensic technology, and knowledge of the Iron Age
Theories = not proved
Bogs:
- Northern Europe
- Denmark
- United Kingdom, Germany, and The Netherlands
- Iron Age people put offerings of stones, pottery and sculpture into the bog. People?
- Germany: homosexuals or cowards often mutilated.
Why Did All of This Happen?
- Some of the damage inflicted was done CENTURIES after the burial.
Who were the Bog Men?
- Unsolved!
- Researchers have found over 120 DEAD males laying in bogs.
Basic Ideas:
These men were part of an Iron Age ritual to the gods. Instead of cremating, they were
buried in bogs.
The Bogs played somewhat of a part to the damage done.