BODIES FROM THE ICE: Finalist for the 2010 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books

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What is the future of bog bodies?

It's unlikely that many new bog bodies will ever be found--for two reasons. 

A large machine used to cut peat1. In many northern European countries, peat can no longer be dug from the few bogs that remain. If peat isn't cut, bodies and objects will not be found. 

The type of large-scale cutting that has happened in bogs, as shown in a photograph displayed at the Moor and Fen Museum, in Elisabethfehn, Germany2. In other countries, so much of the peat cutting is mechanized that a bog discovery would be caught too late to be of much use. The last bog body found in England (Lindow III) was chopped into 70-plus pieces before it was "rescued."

 

 

For more information about bogs and bog bodies, read James M. Deem's

Bodies from the Bog

 

BOG BODY STORIES AT jamesmdeem.com

Bog Body Story 1 (The story of Lindow Man)

Bog Body Story 2 (The discovery of Grauballe Man)

 

 

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