Iron Age 'Bog Bodies' Unveiled

BBC ^ | 1-7-2006

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This is my favorite, Tollund Man (rope still around his neck)

[Caipirabob]

Great site, thanks!

[Prost1]

Agree. I have never believed much in ritual sacrifice for fertility gods or other yokels...(Except maybe the Mesoamericans).

[Solamente]

[SuzyQue]

Old Croghan man was beheaded and dismembered Both bodies were subsequently taken to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.

I had no idea that the Museum was that old!

Here's another article on these gentlemen:

Ancient ‘bog men’ make fashion statement

One wore hair gel, the other ‘would have been a giant’ 2,300 years ago

... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10789343/?GT1=7538

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18925342.700

Iron-age torture victims unearthed
• 14 January 2006
• From New Scientist Print Edition

"He was built like Schwarzenegger, but he had the daintiest fingernails I've ever seen," says Rolly Read, conservation director of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. He is describing Old Croghan Man, one of two immaculately preserved "bog bodies" unveiled this week, both named after the sites where they were discovered.

The partial remains of the two men, both killed around 2300 years ago, have been preserved by the peat in which they were buried. Both were rich. Old Croghan Man, found minus his head and legs, had nails that were polished and well manicured, says Read, who conserved the bodies for display. The second body, Cloneycavan Man, lacks its lower torso and legs, but has a generous mop of hair, slicked up using what appears to be an Iron Age hair gel made from vegetable oil and a French or Spanish pine resin that would have been affordable only to the wealthy.

The researchers think the men were political opponents of the king. They were horrifically tortured before ritual sacrifice and burial. The pattern of wounds on Old Croghan Man show he raised an arm to defend himself from being stabbed in the lung. Cloneycavan Man was repeatedly beaten around the head, smashing open his skull. The bodies will be shown on UK television in a BBC Timewatch documentary on 20 January.

From issue 2534 of New Scientist magazine, 14 January 2006, page 4

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