Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Glob, P.V.; Wayland Barber, Elizabeth; Barber, Paul |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 8/31/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preservedbody of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murdervictim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until theyconsulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that ofa two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrificeto the goddess of fertility.
Written in the guise of a scientific detective story,this classic of archaeological history–a best-seller when it was published in Englandbut out of print for many years–is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable accountof the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age.
Includes 76 black-and-whitephotographs.
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