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The Mysterious Bog People

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To further your exploration of subjects related to the exhibition The Mysterious Bog People (presented at the Canadian Museum of Civilization from December 6, 2002 to September 1, 2003), we have compiled a list of suggested books, articles and Web sites. It includes the call numbers of the sources available for consultation at the museum's library.

Bergen, C., M. J. L. Th. Niekus and V. T. van Vilsteren, eds. The Mysterious Bog People. Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders Publishers; Hanover, Germany: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover; Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization; Calgary, Alberta: Glenbow Museum, 2002.

Binant, Pascale. La préhistoire de la mort : les premières sépultures en Europe, Paris, Éditions Errance, 1991, Coll. des Hespérides.

Binant, Pascale. Les sépultures du paléolithique, Paris, Éditions Errance, 1991, Coll. « Archéologie aujourd'hui ».

Briard, Jacques. La préhistoire de l'Europe : des origines à l'âge du fer, Paris, J.-P. Gisserot, 1995, Coll. Bien connaître.

Brothwell, Don R. The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Call number: GN 780.22 G7 B76

Chamberlain, Andrew and Michael Parker Pearson. Earthly Remains: The History and Science of Preserved Human Bodies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Champion, T. C. Prehistoric Europe. London: Academic Press, 1984.
Call number: GN 803 P73

Coles, Bryony and John M. Coles. People of the Wetlands: Bogs, Bodies and Lake-Dwellers. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1989.

Coles, Bryony, John M. Coles and others, eds. Bog Bodies, Sacred Sites and Wetland Archaeology. WARP Occasional Paper No. 12. Exeter, England: Wetland Archaeology Research Project, 1999.
Call number: CC 77 W48 B463 1999

Cunliffe, Barry W., ed. The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Glob, Peter Vilhelm. The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1969; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1997.

Glob, Peter Vilhelm. The Mound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved. London: Faber, 1974.
Call number: GN 778.22 D4 G5513 1974

Glob, Peter Vilhelm. Les hommes des tourbières, Paris, Fayard, 1966.

Prag, John and Richard Neave. Making Faces: Using Forensic and Archaeological Evidence. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1997.
Call number: GN 74 P73 1997

Pringle, Heather Anne. The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead. New York: Hyperion, 2001.
Call number: GN 293 P75 2001

Sanden, W. A. B. van der. Through Nature to Eternity: The Bog Bodies of Northwest Europe. Amsterdam: Batavian Lion International, 1996.
Call number: GN 803 S23 1996

Schutz, Herbert. The Prehistory of Germanic Europe. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1983.
Call number: GN 803 S38

Spindler, Konrad and others, eds. Human Mummies: A Global Survey of Their Status and the Techniques of Conservation. New York: Springer, 1996.

Stead, I. Mathieson, J. B. Bourke and Don R. Brothwell. Lindow Man: The Body in the Bog. London: British Museum Publications, 1986.
Call number: DA 690 L6 L56

Turner, Richard C. and Robert G. Scaife. Bog Bodies: New Discoveries and New Perspectives. London: British Museum Press, 1995.

Heaney, Seamus. Bog Poems. London: Rainbow Press, 1975.

Heaney, Seamus. Door into the Dark. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Buell, Janet. Bog Bodies. Time Travelers Series. New York: Twenty First Century Books, 1997.

Deem, James M. Bodies from the Bog. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Prior, Natalie Jane. Bog Bodies: Mummies and Curious Corpses. True Stories Series. Allen & Unwin; distributed by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago, 1994.

Wilcox, Charlotte. Bog Mummies: Preserved in Peat. Capstone High-Interest Books. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 2002.

Mummies: Frozen in Time, produced by Kevin Bachar, 52 min., Discovery Communications Inc., 1999, distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment.

Bahn, Paul G. "Bodies of the Bogs". Archaeology, vol. 50, no. 4 (July/August 1997), pp. 62-67.

Kiner, A. « Momies de l'âge du fer : le peuple des tourbières », Sciences et avenir, n^o 607, septembre 1997, p. 90-96.

Menon, Shanti. "The People of the Bog". Discover, August 1997, pp. 60-67, 87.

Mohen, J. P. « Les hommes des tourbières », Dossiers d'archéologie, n^o 259, décembre 2000, p. 10-15.

"Bodies of the Bogs", Archaeology, online archive, December 10, 1997, Archaeological Institute of America.
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/bog/index.html

Drents Museum, Bog Bodies.
http://www.drentsmuseum.nl/drentsuk/archeolo/indexyde.html

Drents Museum and others, Le mystérieux peuple des tourbières / The Mysterious Bog People.
http://www.bogpeople.org/

Faure, F., Les momies des tourbières, 1999.
http://www.archeobase.com/v_texte/momiesdestourbieres/index.htm

Poems by Seamus Heany, The Internet Poetry Archive, created and edited by Paul Jones and others, and published by the University of North Carolina through ibiblio.
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/index.html

Sibley, Lynn, "Lindow Man: Murders in a Bog", published on the Web site of the American Chemical Society.
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=acsdisplay.html&DOC;=vc2%5C2my%5Cmy2_man.html