Bog statements

1. Scientists believe that there's more than thirty types of edible or medical plants around the area where the 'bog people' were buried.

2. Scientists think that the bog is like a public cemetery, because the bodies were nearly half male and half female, also because the bodies didn't show too much 'violent ends'.

3. The Lindow man is found in England. He is different from the other bog people because he has a beard and a moustache.

4. When archaeologists discovered him, the Tollund man had a four feet long rope around his neck.

5. Archaeologists say that the Tollund man is 'treated with care' after he died, although he has a four feet rope tied on his neck...

6. One of the woman discovered in the Florida bog had a variety of berries and plants in her intestines, scientists think that the berries are supposed to be medicine to treat her illness which eventually killed her.

7. Scientists left nearly half the bog people in the bog because they hope then can examine them with better technology after 50 years.

8. Most of the bodies in the bog were about twenty years old (before they died). One was about seventy years old, which was very old at that time.

9. Except humans, archaeologists have also found bone tools (made from turtle bones, white dears, and sharks), wooden artifacts, and textiles (which was used to wrap the bodies).

10. The bog people were found when a man saw bones coming out of the bog. He called the police, who said that the people were not murdered recently. The man then called the Florida State University, who discovered that the ramains were 'bog people'.