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Lindow Man
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Lindow Man
This compact book, packed with glorious colour photography joins a series on the stand out holdings of the British Museum. It describes the discovery, conservation and analysis of the corpse of Lindow Man, Britain's best preserved bog body, dating to the late Iron Age.
Lindow Man was accidentally discovered by peat-cutters in Cheshire in the 1980s. He was first thought to be a modern murder victim, but scientific investigations soon proved that he had died in the first century AD, around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain. Jody Joy tells the gripping and gruesome story of the discovery, examination and Lindow Man, and explores the many unanswered questions which remain.
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Lindow Man was accidentally discovered by peat-cutters in Cheshire in the 1980s. He was first thought to be a modern murder victim, but scientific investigations soon proved that he had died in the first century AD, around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.
The environment of the peat bog had kept his body in a remarkable state of preservation, and he is still providing a wealth of information to researchers about the diet and health of people at that time. Many theories have been put forward about his death. He was (apparently) struck on the head, strangled, and his throat was cut before he went into the marsh. Does this literal overkill indicate that he was a sacrificial victim? Experts are still trying to understand exactly how he died.
Other bog bodies have been found in Ireland and Scandinavia — what are the possible connections?
Jody Joy tells the gripping and gruesome story of the discovery, examination, and Lindow Man, and explores the many unanswered questions which remain.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780714128177
Publisher: British Museum Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 April 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: British Museum Press
Illustration: Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 147.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 140g
Pages: 56
About the Author
Jody Joy is a Senior Curator at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, where he is responsible for the European Archaeology collections. Prior to that, he was Curator of the European Iron Age at the British Museum. He has curated numerous exhibitions over the past 20 years on subjects as varied as the Archaeology of Childhood and the Mesolithic site of Star Carr. He has published widely on numerous topics including, the archaeology and art of the European Iron Age and the ethics of displaying human remains in museums.
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