The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved - P. V. Glob

Descriere The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved - P. V. Glob

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. \n \nOne 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.\n \n \n \nWritten 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.\n \n \n \nIncludes 76 black-and-white photographs.\n

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New York Review Of Books

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ENSTK

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9781590170908

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1

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