{"product_id":"the-bog-people-isbn-9781590170908","title":"The Bog People","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved  body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder  victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they  consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of  a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice  to the goddess of fertility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the guise of a scientific detective story,  this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England  but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account  of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes 76 black-and-white  photographs.\u003c\/p\u003eA fascinating account of the discoveries and of what they tell us about the life and death of the Iron Age people.\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlob deserves gratitude not only for preserving these astonishing underground survivors physically, but for a fascinating exposition of their way of life.\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA splendid book, full of detail and fascination not only for the specialist, who would indeed benefit from reading it, but for anyone interested in the techniques and results of first-rate archaeological research.\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003eP.V. Glob (1911–1985) was the Director General of Museums and Antiquities for the State of Denmark and Director of the National Museum in Copenhagen. Although his professional interest took him from Greenland to the Arabian Gulf, his most sustained study was of his native country. In addition to\u003ci\u003e The Bog People\u003c\/i\u003e, Glob published numerous anthropological works including \u003ci\u003eDenmark: An Archaeological History from the Stone Age to the Vikings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Wayland Barber received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. Her research and publications focus on various aspects of anthropology and language. She teaches archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul T. Barber received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. He is a research associate at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304984236261,"sku":"NP9781590170908","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590170908.jpg?v=1767738439","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-bog-people-isbn-9781590170908","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}