Sentences with phrase «bog bodies»

The Old Croghan Man is one of a number of 2,000 year old «bog bodies» unearthed from Irish wetlands in recent years.

In a new solo exhibition at the Douglas Hyde, Sam Keogh explores the Old Croghan Man, one of a number of 2,000 year old «bog bodies» unearthed from Irish wetlands in recent years.

Cast in the surfaces of these pallid panels, pouches of bodily mass — in the shape of inflatable toy skeletons — appear suspended like flies in a web or frozen like fossilized bog bodies.

This detailed account, complete with mesmerizing photos of artifacts, scientific procedures, and the mummies themselves, explores the preservative makeup of bogs and the information bog bodies reveal about early Europeans.

The body provided context for Incan culture and rituals, while the book itself — especially when paired with Bog Bodies — gives insight into the hows and whys of human sacrifice.

The preservation of the bodies in the bogs allows for a greater understanding of human existence 2,000 years ago; the text includes a discussion of the theory that the Lindow Man and many of the other bog bodies were meant as sacrifices to pagan gods.

Like its companion volume, Bog Bodies (1997), this deals with the discovery of a preserved body — this time, the frozen mummy of a young girl in the Andes.

People have been preserving bodies of the dead for millennia, from the bog bodies found in the peat wetlands of northern Europe to the embalmed and wrapped mummies recovered from Egypt's desert sands.

Cashel Man, the oldest bog body in the entire continent of Europe at roughly 4,000 years, is thought to be a sacrificial victim and provides a fascinating look at the culture of prehistoric Ireland.

Not exact matches

World: You're getting bogged down in Western philosophical and scientific ideas of defining things by splitting them down to their lowest levels, but then failing to put them together again and see the whole ineteraction of the one body that is the Universe.

Those who survive a «heat event» will continue to suffer in this putrid bog, now littered with the decaying bodies of their dead companions.

By eating the way our ancestors did, our bodies grow stronger, our waistbands shrink, and our minds sharpen, no longer bogged down by the unhealthy food lining most grocery shelves.

This ensures that the proper amount of time and attention can be paid by individuals entrusted to deal with them without bogging down large governing bodies with the need to deal with operating minutiae.

If you feel that your body is bogged down or sluggish, you may even want to consider doing some type of cleanse to rid it of any toxins that may have built up over the years.

The body releases too much fat, and the liver gets bogged down.

Two thousand years ago the residents of northwest Europe had the puzzling habit of killing certain men, women, and children and tossing the bodies into bogs.

Raised lowland bogs contain the mummified remains of everything from plants, pollens and airborne pollutants to archaeological remains and human bodies, all filed in layers, by date.

Written by a commission of 25 biologists and industrialists brought together by conservation bodies, it calls on the government to revoke all planning permission for peat cutting on bogs with conservation value, and to pay compensation where due.

One body came from an Irish peat bog.

Unlike the days when I'd eat a giant sandwich with cheese and meat and sink into an afternoon stupor, plants don't bog down my body.

If your body is bogged down with conditions like permeability of the gut lining (leaky gut syndrome), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) or just generalized imbalances in your gut bacteria (dysbiosis), it can drain your energy significantly.

Green Bog Orchid connects us to the grounding nourishment of the earth, knowing we are held, waking us up to the delight of the body.

Your body needs to be able to extract the proper macronutrients without feeling bloated or bogged down.

That's the best we can do as the FDA is too bogged down with issues like the dairy industry trying to sneak sugar into milk without labeling it and the constant craziness with Big Pharma — I have friends who do or have worked there, there's no «extra» money for the FDA to go around figuring out exactly what all the compounds in a glass of milk do inside your body.

When the body is bogged down by toxins and inflammation and missing critical nutrients, metabolism slows and our energy level suffer.

When two individuals have sex for at first the objectives and the fun is thoughts bogging and sometimes in this scenario the brain and your body do not be connected with each other efficiently and the outcome is unhappiness.

It's not a film that gets bogged down by external forces, so at no point does «A» have to hide themself from a secret government organization or run afoul of a clandestine body - swapper cabal.

In Ragnarok, Banner finds out he's spent two whole years as the Hulk, which effectively changed his body chemistry (though director Taika Waititi doesn't bog audiences down in the specifics).

For the rest, it's snazzy driving, efficient killing, and intricate plans that don't bog the film down in superfluous details, not when there's another body to be flung at a startled passerby.

In order to stop the engine from bogging the A / C usually has a way of raising the idle by letting more air past the throttle body.

Using the bog - standard GT3 as a base, the RS tacks on a wider body from the Turbo, deeper front splitter, side skirts and rear valence, downforce - inducing front fender vents, extra air outlets on the carbon fibre engine lid and a large adjustable rear wing.

The extra bulk also blunts on - road dynamics, particularly in tighter corners where the front end tends to bog down and understeer and body roll are easily provoked.

It's a window into history as well: bodies preserved in peat bogs and glaciers allow for a look into life thousands of years ago, as do artifacts buried with the dead.

Beginning with the 1984 discovery of the body now known as the Lindow Man in a peat bog in England, this installation in the Time Travelers series examines the anthropological information about ancient Celtic cultures gleaned by bog mummies.

Fergus and his uncle find a girl's body buried in a peat bog at the start of this novel, told in parallel narratives, of two young people who sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

A team of porters had to carry his limp body on a stretcher through the bogs and swamps until he got better.

We recommend: seeing the Kingship and Sacrifice exhibition, where you can see ancient bodies preserved by bogs.

So there are bodies squashed flat like peat bog men (Andra Ursuta) or posed like Renaissance figures (Tanyth Berkeley), policewomen draped like sirens on rocks (Jansson Stegner) and politicians carved out of sides of Iberian ham (Kasper Kovtiz).

Caroline takes her place among Egyptian statues and bog - preserved bodies as a sublime image of the enduring and irreplaceable mystery of what a human being is.

His body was then deposited in a bog lake where the soft - tissue was compressed, tanned and preserved by the biochemical composition of the environment.

bog a poorly drained (usually acid) area rich in accumulated plant material, frequently surrounding a body of open water, and having a characteristic flora (as of sedges, heaths, and sphagnum)

Although I'm more familiar with the preservative qualities of bogs from reports over the years of long - dead bodies recovered from them.