One morning in April 1952, Danish workmen digging in a peat bog near the
town of Grauballe made an astonishing discovery: the body of a man
preserved in the bog, his face Xattened by the weight of the peat and
his skin as brown as the earth in which he lay. Who was this man, and
how had he come to be there?
With striking photographs and engaging text, James M. Deem tells the
story of Grauballe Man and other bog bodies discovered in European peat
bogs. He explains who they were, how they lived and died, and how their
peat graves acted to preserve their bodies so well.