The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved

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.

Author: P. V. Glob
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 08/31/2004
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.34w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9781590170908
Revised Edition