Melanie Giles (Senior Lecturer)

Bog bodies

Face to face with the past

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reinterpreting the latest research and discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking study of Worsley Man, this book brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. It also reflects on the debate over whether bog bodies should be displayed at all. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9781526150189
• ISBN-10: 1526150182
• Artikelnr.: 58590756

Autorenporträt

Melanie Giles is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 2 Discovering bog bodies 3 Preserving the dead 4 Crossing
the bog 5 Exquisite things and everyday treasures: interpreting deposition
in the bog 6 Violent ends 7 Worsley Man: Manchester's bog head 8
Disquieting exhibits 9 Conclusion: creative legacies Index