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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Moen, Marianne
• Walsh, Matthew J.

Titel

Under the Skin: Norwegian Bog Skeletons and Perceptions of Personhood, Value, and Sacrifice

Ist Teil von

• European journal of archaeology, 2022-11, Vol.25 (4), p.483-503

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The authors set a relatively small and little-known corpus of human remains recovered from Iron Age wetland contexts in Norway in a wider theoretical framework of sacrifice and personhood. The material studied, fragmentary skeletal remains in wetland contexts, juxtaposed with the better-known bog body tradition of northern Europe, offers a base from which to query constructions and perceptions of personhood. Situating the discussion in a contextual framework and relational underpinnings of ways of being, the authors examine whether or not the assumption that personhood rests in a human body can be implicitly inferred when confronted with ancient human remains, and what this may imply for interpretations of human bodies in votive settings.