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10 novembre 2016
- doi: 10.58079/tcyo
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laurencetotelin, « The Bog Body Shop: a prehistory of personal grooming », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tcyo
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By Jacqui Mulville How did ancient people alter the basic human form? Without written records we rely on representations of humans in early art and on the remains of fleshed bodies, rather than dry bones, for information. In NW Europe the earliest examples of soft tissue preservation include a single Bronze Age ‘ice mummy’ (Utzi) who died 5000 years ago, with more extensive information available from over one thousand remains of Iron Age people preserved in peat bogs. One of the bog bodie...