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The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved

Name: The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
Brand: New York Review of Books
SKU: 9781590170908
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Contributors:

P. V. Glob, Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Introduction by), Paul Barber (Introduction by)

Publisher:

New York Review of Books

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Ancient, Anthropology, Social History

Edition Description:

Revised Edition

Series:

New York Review Books Classics

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Release Date:

2004-08-31

ISBN 13:

9781590170908

Weight:

0.9 lbs

Size:

9.10 x 6.34 x 0.59 inches

Pages:

216

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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.

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.

About the Author
P.V. Glob (1911-1985) was the Director General of Museums and Antiquities for the State of Denmark and Director of the National Museum in Copenhagen. Although his professional interest took him from Greenland to the Arabian Gulf, his most sustained study was of his native country. In addition to The Bog People, Glob published numerous anthropological works including Denmark: An Archaeological History from the Stone Age to the Vikings and Mound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved.

Elizabeth Wayland Barber received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. Her research and publications focus on various aspects of anthropology and language. She teaches archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College.

Paul T. Barber received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. He is a research associate at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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