I’m sure it was accidental at first, but eventually they found out bogs were great at preserving things. There are plenty of records of people putting food in bogs to preserve them.
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 months agoWow, what the heck this looks better preserved than most mummies i ever saw.
Was this a natural accidental pickle process or an intentional practice?
I want to be pickled after death now.
Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Cort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Didn’t someone find perfectly good butter in a bog from a few hundred years ago?
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 10 months ago
Would you eat toast that had been buttered with the bog butter?
Cort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Honestly, depends on the smell. But I’d probably try a bite
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
More on preservation in bogs here:
nytimes.com/…/archaeology-britain-must-farm.html
edition.cnn.com/2024/03/20/europe/…/index.html
The full site report can be found here, lots of pics. Scroll to bottom for pdfs.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Natural, he was possibly sacrificed, maybe murdered. Either way, an unpleasant time.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollund_Man
This is a great read, don’t be intimidated. It’s by one of the Time Team guys.
…bham.ac.uk/…/Chapman_et_al_Towards_an_archeaolog…