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Informationen zum Autor Jody Joy is a Senior Curator at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, where he is responsible for the European Archaeology collections. Prior to that, he was Curator of the European Iron Age at the British Museum. He has curated numerous exhibitions over the past 20 years on subjects as varied as the Archaeology of Childhood and the Mesolithic site of Star Carr. He has published widely on numerous topics including, the archaeology and art of the European Iron Age and the ethics of displaying human remains in museums. Klappentext Lindow Man was accidentally discovered by peat-cutters in Cheshire in the 1980s. He was first thought to be a modern murder victim, but scientific investigations soon proved that he had died in the first century AD, around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain. Jody Joy tells the gripping and gruesome story of the discovery, examination and Lindow Man, and explores the many unanswered questions which remain. Vorwort Lindow Man was accidentally discovered by peat-cutters in Cheshire in the 1980s. He was first thought to be a modern murder victim, but scientific investigations soon proved that he had died in the first century AD, around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain. Jody Joy tells the gripping and gruesome story of the discovery, examination and Lindow Man, and explores the many unanswered questions which remain. Zusammenfassung This compact book, packed with glorious colour photography joins a series on the stand out holdings of the British Museum. It describes the discovery, conservation and analysis of the corpse of Lindow Man, Britain's best preserved bog body, dating to the late Iron Age.
