January 26, 2004

• Not just cats, but a monkey, too.
• Identification revised.
• Ummm, I dunno, bees: I also became fascinated by the runes, and have discovered that they are in fact Queer magick, created and spread around Europe by a tribe of nomadic homosexual warriors
• Yes, goetter, one suspects our author may have an axe to grind. Not sure exactly what kind of axe, but not, perhaps not as free of preconceptions as we'd expect to find in a scientist. Matheson's identification of the smaller body does seem to be fairly solid, though I don't see much evidence for the assumption a particular pre-death relationshop existed between the two. Do think it's interesting the gender of the smaller one seems to have been so recently determined.
• Gin a body meet a body... Iron Age Bog Bodies, that is.
• I saw that too bees - amazing stuff. Shame the peat cutter got to that one first. Now Heaney can rewrite Tollund man set closer to home!
• Oh and also, one man was six foot six! I wonder if his height singled him out for the dubious hounour of being sacrificed.
• Possibly so. Were they strangers or locals? Sounds like at least one of 'em was well-fed. How old is the custom of feeding a condemned man a hearty lasdt meal, I wonder.
• 5,000-Year-Old Mummy DNA Part of New Human Extinction Mystery
• "Frankenstein" Bog Mummies Discovered in Scotland: Two ancient bodies made from six people, new study reveals.
• Don't know quite what to think about this. Just. Too. Weird.