"Frankenstein" Bog Mummies Discovered in Scotland

National Geographic ^ | 6-6-2012 | Rachel Kaufman

[Renfield]

A female Bronze Age mummy from Cladh Hallan is a composite of different skeletons.

[Renfield]

Ping

[freedumb2003]

One “Bones” episode coming up.

I used to like that show until it jumped the shark by letting her and Booth do it...

[Chode]

how is it a MUMMY if it's just bones???

[lurk]

They owned a small business and were regulated to death.

[martin_fierro]

In a "eureka" moment worthy of Dr. Frankenstein, scientists have discovered that two 3,000-year-old Scottish "bog bodies" are actually made from the remains of six people.
According to new isotopic dating and DNA experiments, the mummies—a male and a female—were assembled from various body parts, although the purpose of the gruesome composites is likely lost to history.

More like Frank N. Furter.

[BenLurkin]

"Parts is parts."

[HangnJudge]

More like Frank N. Furter.

Darn it, That movie was perverse
Now I have to scrape off my eyes to
Recalibrate my Moral Compass

[Tanniker Smith]

I realize that they probably didn’t have a written history at the time, and everything was probably oral tradition, but is the 11th century really “prehistoric”? I hear “prehistoric”, I think the Flintstones. Well, not quite, but you know what I mean.

[SunkenCiv]

;’) Probably from another planet.

[SunkenCiv]

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[TheOldLady]

The link to the National Geographic’s photos of bog bodies is pretty good as well.

Why different people’s body parts were assembled and interred long after they all died will probably remain a mystery. Unless the Frankenstein story is true. [popping sound you hear is my tongue being withdrawn from my cheek]

Thank you for the interesting ping, Mr. Civilizations.

[ApplegateRanch]

how is it a MUMMY if it's just bones???

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That was my first thought, too.

Then comes the really gruesome mental image of 600 year old preserved bodies being disinterred and dismembered; then those body parts stitched together "Frankenstein style".

Instead, it is a batch of old bones that were assembled into complete (more or less) skeletons; no mummies involved. Not even sure it even qualifies as "bog bodies", as the term is generally understood.

[Chode]

yup, gruesome...

[afraidfortherepublic]

From another link about bog mummies, they found one of them used "hair gel". I think he looks like Donald Trump.

[SunkenCiv]

Including anchovies!

[SunkenCiv]

These are not *from* the 11th century, they are from 3000 years ago, but were found *under* some 11th c structures.

[Chode]

i think the mummy reference was a mistake

[ApplegateRanch]

True; but that is still no excuse for calling skeletal remains “mummies”. No soft tissue at all.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, if these women gave birth back then, they were someone’s mummy at one time...