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>I would disagree with this analysis. Since the bog is so successful at preserving the remains it would be a horrible place for "gangsters" or anyone murdering
by gozur88 10y ago
>I would disagree with this analysis. Since the bog is so successful at preserving the remains it would be a horrible place for "gangsters" or anyone murdering someone else, to dump a body. A body which years later would still be recognizable as the victim.
Except nobody would find it unless you put it near somewhere inhabited. Surely the fact they were there for thousands of years is a testament to that.
- eric_h 10y agoI don't think the two hypotheses are mutually exclusive. A place well suited to a ritual burial (for the reasons of not attracting carion feeders or otherwise not poisoning resources normally used) would also be well suited to burying victims that people would want to hide. To me, a bog seems like a place that would leave little trace on the surface relatively shortly after a burial. It would, as a result, serve just as well as a means of symbolically "sending someone to another realm" as it would concealing a murder.
- lawpoop 10y agoWhat if the few people mucking about the peat bog ran into it, said "Oh gross that's a dead guy", and went the other way, for thousands of years?