The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved (New York Review Books Classics)

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. 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. "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 bag as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility." "Written in the guise of a scientific defective 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."--Jacket From archaeological and scientific knowledge and the evidence of classical writers, a picture is drawn of the lives of Danish Iron-Age people found preserved in peat bogs.