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Pearson, Mike Parker; Chamberlain, Andrew; Craig, Oliver; Marshall, Peter; Mulville, Jacqui; Smith, Helen; Chenery, Carolyn; Collins, Matthew; Cook, Gordon; Craig, Geoffrey; Evans, Jane; Hiller, Jen; Montgomery, Janet; Schwenninger, Jean-Luc; Taylor, Gillian (September 2005).
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in two respects: unlike most bog bodies, they appear to have been put in the bog for the express purpose of preservation (whereas most bog bodies were simply interred in the bog), and unlike most bog bodies, their soft tissue was no longer preserved at the time of discovery.
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for 6 to 18 months. The preserved bodies were then apparently retrieved from the bog and set up inside a dwelling, presumably having religious significance. Archaeologists do not know why the bodies were buried centuries later. The Cladh Hallan skeletons differ from most
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Pearson, Mike Parker; Chamberlain, Andrew; Craig, Oliver; Marshall, Peter; Mulville, Jacqui; Smith, Helen; Chenery, Carolyn; Collins, Matthew; Cook, Gordon; Craig, Geoffrey; Evans, Jane; Hiller, Jen; Montgomery, Janet; Schwenninger, Jean-Luc; Taylor, Gillian (2005).
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at the site, one of them a male who had died c. 1600 BC, and another a female who had died c. 1300 BC. At first, the researchers did not realise they were dealing with mummies, since the
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Cladh Hallan - Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age: Part I: Stratigraphy, Spatial Organisation and Chronology
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have been found. Excavations were carried out there between 1988 and 2002, which indicate the site was occupied from 2000 BC.
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Hanna, Jayd; Bouwman, Abigail S.; Brown, Keri A.; Parker Pearson, Mike; Brown, Terence A. (1 August 2012).
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after the lengthy process of analysis and reporting is completed. According to recent anthropological and
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Pearson, Mike Parker; Mulville, Jacqui; Smith, Helen; Marshall, Peter (31 October 2021).
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The skeletons and other finds are being analysed in laboratories in Scotland,
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From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey And Excavation in South Uist
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Booth, Thomas J.; Chamberlain, Andrew T.; Pearson, Mike Parker (2015).
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Photo of the site
Cladh Hallan is located in Outer Hebrides
South Uist
57°10′16″N 7°24′27″W / 57.17116°N 7.40759°W / 57.17116; -7.40759
Bronze Age
Scottish Gaelic
[kʰl̪ˠɤɣˈhaːl̪ˠɪɲ]
archaeological site
South Uist
Outer Hebrides
Scotland
Great Britain
prehistoric
mummies

archaeologists
skeletons
soft tissue
buried
bog
bog bodies
England
Wales
Scottish museum
DNA
List of unsolved deaths
"Evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain"
doi
10.1017/S0003598X00114486
ISSN

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