| The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved Revised Edition Contributor(s): Glob, P. V. (Author), Wayland Barber, Elizabeth (Introduction by), Barber, Paul (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590170903 ISBN-13: 9781590170908 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: Conceived as a detective story of sorts, "The Bog People" is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of Iron Age Europe as revealed when a well-preserved body is found in a Danish bog. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 936.3 |
| LCCN: 2004015663 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.34" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |