{"id":924,"date":"2007-08-28T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2007-08-28T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T18:42:00","slug":"bog-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Bog Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was shelving library books for my college work-study job when I saw it: “The Bog People<\/em><\/a> Glob,” the spine announced. After rolling that around in my mouth, “bog people glob bog people glob,” I had to check it out.<\/p>\n

And so the Danish archaeologist P.V. Glob introduced me to some dead people who were sort of time capsules from the late Neolithic to the Middle Ages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Northern Path links to a National Geographic<\/em> article that updates some of those stories<\/a>. It turns out, for instance, that “Windeby Girl<\/a>,” supposed to have been executed for adultery or some crime, was actually a boy. Oops.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia explains the preservation process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am waiting for someone who proudly follows a reconstructionist Pagan path to commit their body to a few centuries of tannic acid bath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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