Under the Skin
Norwegian Bog Skeletons and Perceptions of Personhood, Value, and Sacrifice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7174679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melanie Moen (0000-0001-6922-8247, University of Oslo, corresponding author), M J Walsh (0000-0003-0151-4655, National Museum of Denmark) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 483-503 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/eaa.2021.65 |
| OpenAlex | W4210355990 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
The authors set a relatively small and little-known corpus of human remains recovered from Iron Age wetland contexts in Norway in a wider theoretical framework of sacrifice and personhood. The material studied, fragmentary skeletal remains in wetland contexts, juxtaposed with the better-known bog body tradition of northern Europe, offers a base from which to query constructions and perceptions of personhood. Situating the discussion in a contextual framework and relational underpinnings of ways of being, the authors examine whether or not the assumption that personhood rests in a human body can be implicitly inferred when confronted with ancient human remains, and what this may imply for interpretations of human bodies in votive settings
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Norwegian · Personhood · Sacrifice · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |