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Bog Body
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Bog Body
A human body which has been partially preserved by the acidic water of bogs and marshes


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Sunday For peat's sake: Amy and Maya investigate why bogs help keep organic material from decaying and view the preserved humans in "The Mysterious Bog People," a traveling exhibit at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
The Bog People The Grauballe Man and its companion poems were inspired by Heaney's reading of The Bog People, a popular work by the eminent Danish archaeologist Peter Vilhelm Glob, who was involved in the excavation and subsequent investigation of a number of peat bog corpses, including the Grauballe Man.
With Tribes as this year's theme watch out for traditional Nigerian tribes, Bog People from Macnas, a Norse tribe and a gang of St Patricks and snakes.
 
 
 
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