bog body en · NOUN
Meanings
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A human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.
Recently excavated bog bodies have been intensively recorded, analyzed in great detail, and conserved for long-term preservation and museum display.
2014, Matt Cardin, editor, Mummies around the World, ABC-CLIO, page 34:1996, D. Brothwell, European bog bodies: current state of research and preservation, Konrad Spindler, Harald Wilfing, Elisabeth Rastbichler-Zissernig, Dieter zur Nedden, Hans Nothdurfter (editors), The Man in the Ice, Volume 3: Human Mummies, Springer, page 161, Records of bog body discoveries extend back to 1640, this date referring to a find in Shalkholz Fen in Schleswig Holstein (Glob, 1969).
The presence of particles of Sphagnum in a sample of stomach contents of a bog body has been cited as evidence that the victim drank bog water with her/his last meal (Fisher, 1998).
2003, Arthur C. Aufderheide, The Scientific Study of Mummies, Cambridge University Press, page 176:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| bog bodies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (9)
de Moorleiche (human body naturally mummified in a peat bog) · ru боло́тная му́мия (human body naturally mummified in a peat bog) · sv mosslik (human body naturally mummified in a peat bog) · pl zwłoki z torfowiska (human body naturally mummified in a peat bog) · fr homme des tourbières (human body naturally mummified in a peat bog) · sv mosskropp (human body naturally mummified in a peat bog) · it mummia di palude (human body naturally mummified in a peat bog) · nl veenlijk (human body naturally mummified in a peat bog) · fi suoruumis (human body naturally mummified in a peat bog)