SC - European Food

[Jeff Gedney]

> I have never, personally, seen any scholar say, with conviction, why the "bog 
> people" were found in the condition they were.  There is rumor and 
> speculation (and educated guesses), but no concrete proof that these people 
> were sacrificed.  If you have some, I would certainly love to see it.
> 

I think the fact that the ones in sufficiently good condition to analyze were
 often ritually strangled, and skull cracked at the very top of the head, and 
then staked down under the surface of the bog, allows most researchers to 
assume they were not accidents.
The use of three forms of killing, Strangling, a concussive blow to the head,
and drowning seems to be a recurrent pattern, and speaks ratherly 
conclusivley of ritual.

A good book on the subject, (which I have a copy of):
 
  People of the Wetlands : Bogs, Bodies and Lake-Dwellers (Ancient Peoples and Places) 
by Bryony Coles, J. M. Coles  

Find it in your library.

Brandu