The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved (New York Review Books Classics)
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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.ย 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 e
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Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Release date: 31 August 2004
ISBN-10 : 1590170903 | ISBN-13: 9781590170908
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Release date: 31 August 2004
ISBN-10 : 1590170903 | ISBN-13: 9781590170908