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bog.jpgScience Daily — Human remains yield secrets. Researchers, including Dr. Heather Gill-Robinson, assistant professor of anthropology at North Dakota State University, are now probing the secrets of ‘bog mummies’ some dating back 2000 years, preserved from the Iron Age with amazing detail in peat bogs of Europe.

Bog mummies have particularly interesting stories to tell. Physical anthropologists draw conclusions from the eerily preserved hair, leathery skin and other features that emerge from the bogs.

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