Re: Mysterious bog people in North America

Elizabeth Mullaney wrote:  dli8ub$2j3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,

Peter Alaca wrote:


   Carnegie Museum of Natural History will be the first
   museum in the United States and only museum in the
   eastern part of the country to exhibit The Mysterious
   Bog People. It will be at the museum July 9, 2005
   through January 22, 2006. A special admission fee in
   addition to regular museum admission will be charged
   for this exhibit: $5 for adults, $3 for Members,
   Seniors, Children and students with valid ID.

http://www.carnegiemnh.org/bogpeople/index.htm 

This exciting exhibit was at the Glenbow Museum here in Calgary about
2 years ago. I found it fascinating and very profoundly moving. It is
certainly worth making a serious effort to go and see!

I know that part of the reason it so spoke to me was that P.V. Glob's
book The Bog People was the first serious archaeology I ever read. The
closeness of these people to us in time, and the distance in reality,
is one of the things that has stayed with me in my own study of
history.
Best wishes,

Bess Mullaney 

   P.V. Glob's (1969) well-known photographs hardly
   did justice to the emotive power of the contorted
   bodies laid before us. From the slit throat of
   Grauballe Man to the silent scream of Yde girl, the
   corpses confronted us with images of our own
   mortality. The sacrificial nature of many of these
   individuals was again driven home by the staked-
   out body of Queen Gunhilde (and by the disturbing
   image of the blindfolded Windeby girl). In contrast
   to the often lifelike appearance of the fleshed
   bodies, the skeletons on display were contorted,
   liquorice-twisted by their sojourn in the bogs. But
   the emphasis on death was mitigated by the
   glimpses of the people's lives afforded through
   details of their clothing and hairstyles.

Past. Newsletter Prehistoric Society, April 1997
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past25.html#WARP


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