Category: Introduction

• September 28, 2023

  Relevance

  The following is adapted from a project proposal submitted as part of an assignment for HIST-890 in the fall of 2022. The ongoing preservation of northern European bog bodies is first and foremost relevant to the study of Iron Age Germanic and Celtic cultures. These cultures have left behind scant written histories; scholars are largely…
• September 27, 2023

  Why Bog Bodies?

  The study of human remains, regardless of the context in which they’re being studied, is inevitably viewed as morbid by some of those working outside the relevant fields. Whenever I’m asked about my research interests, one of the most frequent follow-up questions is “why?” While bog bodies have received some attention in recent years thanks…