Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination  -  Karin Sanders

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KORTE INHOUD

Over the past few centuries, northern Europe’s bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary—and ongoing—cultural journey. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and scienc...
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Uitgever: University Of Chicago Press 339 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0226734056 ISBN-13: 9780226734057