I agree. P.V. Glob's "The Bog People" has nice photos of some Iron Age carcasses in which the victim was strangled to death using (presumably) the rope still tied around the neck. Death by hanging?
Don't want to come to the defense of pagan religions, but academia's definitely got it in for religion. Wants to blame every bad thing that ever happened on it. I think most of these murdered bog people were probably thieves and bandits, or the victims of thieves and bandits. In other words, the precursors of our modern socialists are to blame for almost every bad thing that ever happened!