We need to think in terms of developing best practice for excavating future bog bodies, drawing on contemporary approaches to investigating homicides, writes Rosie Everett, Benjamin Gearey, and Karl Harrison
The bog is where forensics and archaeology meet to solve 'cold cases' irishexaminer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishexaminer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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When skeletal remains were first found in Northern Ireland, police did not know whether the bones were from a recent death or maybe from a few years prior, but no one was expecting to hear the remains were actually between 2,000 and 2,500 years-old.