bog body

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Galagh man, a bog body
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bog body (plural bog bodies)

  1. A human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.
    • 1996, D. Brothwell, European bog bodies: current state of research and preservation, Konrad Spindler, Harald Wilfing, Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig, Dieter zur Nedden, Hans Nothdurfter (editors), The Man in the Ice, Volume 3: Human Mummies, Springer, page 161,
      Records of bog body discoveries extend back to 1640, this date referring to a find in Shalkholz Fen in Schleswig Holstein (Glob, 1969).
    • 2003, Arthur C. Aufderheide, The Scientific Study of Mummies, Cambridge University Press, page 176:
      The presence of particles of Sphagnum in a sample of stomach contents of a bog body has been cited as evidence that the victim drank bog water with her/his last meal (Fisher, 1998).
    • 2014, Matt Cardin, editor, Mummies around the World, ABC-CLIO, page 34:
      Recently excavated bog bodies have been intensively recorded, analyzed in great detail, and conserved for long-term preservation and museum display.
    Synonym: bog person

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