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minus-squarewebghost0101linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·7 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.
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·7 months agoNatural, he was possibly sacrificed, maybe murdered. Either way, an unpleasant time. https://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. http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/56693117/Chapman_et_al_Towards_an_archeaology_of_pain_Oxford_Journal_of_Archeaology_2019.pdf
minus-squareTaako_Tuesday@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·7 months agoI’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.
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·7 months agoDidn’t someone find perfectly good butter in a bog from a few hundred years ago?
minus-squaredrdiddlybadger@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoWould you eat toast that had been buttered with the bog butter?
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoHonestly, depends on the smell. But I’d probably try a bite
minus-squareMadlaine@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoI’d probably take a bite a day after they took a bite
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoMore on preservation in bogs here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/science/archaeology-britain-must-farm.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/20/europe/must-farm-bronze-age-britain-pompeii-scn/index.html The full site report can be found here, lots of pics. Scroll to bottom for pdfs. https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/must-farm-volumes
Wow, 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.
Natural, he was possibly sacrificed, maybe murdered. Either way, an unpleasant time.
https://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.
http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/56693117/Chapman_et_al_Towards_an_archeaology_of_pain_Oxford_Journal_of_Archeaology_2019.pdf
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.
Didn’t someone find perfectly good butter in a bog from a few hundred years ago?
Would you eat toast that had been buttered with the bog butter?
Honestly, depends on the smell. But I’d probably try a bite
I’d probably take a bite a day after they took a bite
More on preservation in bogs here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/science/archaeology-britain-must-farm.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/20/europe/must-farm-bronze-age-britain-pompeii-scn/index.html
The full site report can be found here, lots of pics. Scroll to bottom for pdfs.
https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/must-farm-volumes