The archaeologists first found the bones from a human leg, and then a pelvis and a lower jaw with some teeth still attached.Image credit: Christian Dedenroth-Schou, ROMU
Posted on 12/16/2022 8:51:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have discovered the ancient skeletal remains of a so-called bog body in Denmark near the remnants of a flint ax and animal bones, clues that suggest this person was ritually sacrificed more than 5,000 years ago.
Little is known so far about the supposed victim, including the person's sex and age at the time of death. But the researchers think the body was deliberately placed in the bog during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age...
Dozens of so-called bog bodies have been found throughout northwestern Europe — particularly in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain, where human sacrifices in bogs seem to have persisted for several thousand years...
The ROMU archaeological team found the latest set of bones in October ahead of the construction of a housing development. The site, which has now been drained, had been a bog near the town of Stenløse, on the large island of Zealand and just northwest of the Danish capital Copenhagen. Danish law requires archaeologists to examine all land that's to be built on, and the first bones of the Stenløse bog body were found during a test excavation at the site, Struve said...
The oldest bog body in the world, known as Koelbjerg Man, was found in Denmark in the 1940s and may date to 10,000 years ago, while others date to the Iron Age in the region from about 2,500 years ago. One of the most famous and best preserved bog bodies is Tollund Man, who was found on Denmark's Jutland Peninsula in 1950 and is thought to have been sacrificed in about 400 B.C.
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The archaeologists first found the bones from a human leg, and then a pelvis and a lower jaw with some teeth still attached.Image credit: Christian Dedenroth-Schou, ROMU
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Or a drunk that wandered into the bog and got stuck.
If it’s male, name him Peat. It sounds less pretentious than Stenløse Man.
She swore they’d never find him!
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Try not to live near a bog if possible.
Or, live by a bog, just don’t die in one. :^)
Good call!
The thing about bog-bodies is their well preserved appearance.
Finding a skeleton in a bog is not finding a bog-body, but finding a skeleton in a bog.
This is what a bog-body looks like:
It is always a religious sacrifice with these experts when it was Og who found Gog fooling with his wife and dumped his body into the Bog.... : )
Maybe his name should be Wade Boggs
If Western Maoists have their way we’ll be bag to human sacrifices soon.
Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida)
"*Skeletal remains of 169 people, split almost evenly between males and females, ranging from 6 to 70 years old. About 75 of the skeletons were relatively intact.
* 90 intact human brains that include the oldest DNA samples in the World.
*Artifacts of wood, bone, and seed that were made into jewelry and tools, providing insight into the ancient peoples' lives.
* Tests showed the oldest skeletons were buried 8,100 years ago. The youngest was placed in the ground 6,900 years ago.
"To put this into context," Doran said, "these people had already been dead for 3,000 or 4,000 years before the first stones were laid for the Egyptian pyramids!" They were lean and robust, most likely a copper-skinned people. The tallest man stood 5 feet and 6 inches tall. The average woman was 5 feet and 2 inches.
Things tend to bog down when that happens.
Bog bodies bug me.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
That’s why peat moss is not a good idea for gardening. It is anti-microbial.
Now that’s a cold case.
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