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January 07, 2004

Bog people

Any website with a link to "clothing and hairstyles of the bog people" is worth a look.

No one knows how these people ended up in the bogs, but it seems that the bodies are not the remains of unlucky people who fell in after losing their way. According to classical authors, the Roman Iron Age people of northern Europe offered human sacrifices to celebrate military victories, and to recover from illness, and executed people as punishment for crimes or perceived social imperfections such as homosexuality. Many of those found in the bogs died violent deaths

Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 7, 2004 06:48 AM

Comments

Love it! I read a book on the subject by Professor P.V. Glob. (A guy with a name like that has a civic duty to start a Bog Blog.)

Posted by: Eric Scheie at January 9, 2004 12:41 PM