"Kohl and Fawcett’s anthology helped me describe how bog bodies have been used as stand-ins for all kinds of historical atrocities—as Holocaust victims, freedom fighters, victims of sexual discrimination, or people punished for other transgressions. They have been eroticized or positioned as ideological and political bodies, as emblems of or for national identity; or they have seen as noble or horrid, as mnemonic emblems or as symbols of that which has been repressed or forgotten. They have become a strangely personal part of the archaeological record, even if—or perhaps because—we do not fully understand them and their significance.'' 

Recommended by Karin Sanders, Professor of Scandinavian and author of Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination.