Even the Danish bog bodies who furnish the master narrative are being re-examined to determine how well P. V. Glob’s old story still fits.

Mar 8, 2018 · 7,000-Year-Old Native American ‘Bog Burial’ Found Off the Coast of Florida. Experts have identified the remains of at least six individuals, and suspect there are many more bodies to be found

A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BC and the Second World War. [1]

May 20, 2024 · The Windover archaeological site has yielded around 177 bog bodies, making it one of North America’s most significant bog body sites ever discovered. The bodies appear to be related, as...

Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogs. The bodies have been most commonly found in the northern European countries of Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

May 25, 2024 · DNA analysis revealed all the individuals interred in the bog were members of a single extended family group who returned here generation after generation to lay their dead to rest. Isotopic analysis of the bones provides clues to the lifestyle and diet of the Windover people.

Aug 12, 2016 · A cloak preserved with the Haraldskjaer Woman bog body discovered in Jutland, Denmark in 1835, was at first believed to be made from seal skin. We now know that it was made of goat skin. Scale bar measures 10 centimetres.

Mar 1, 2025 · A bog body is any of several hundred variously preserved human remains found in natural peat bogs, mostly in northern and western Europe but also elsewhere. Some bodies show signs of ritual killing or murder, but the circumstances of their deaths are uncertain.

Sep 29, 2016 · The Windover Bog has proven to be one of the most important archeological finds in the United States. In 1982, Steve Vanderjagt, the man who made the find, was using a backhoe to demuck the pond for the development of a new subdivision located about halfway between Disney World and Cape Canaveral.

Jul 7, 2012 · According to new isotopic dating and DNA experiments, the mummies—a male and a female—were assembled from various body parts, although the purpose of the gruesome composites is likely lost to...