Windeby I is the name given to the bog body found preserved in a peat bog in Northern Germany near Windeby in 1952. Until recently, the bog body Windeby I was also called Windeby Girl, because archeologist believed it to be the body of a 14-year old girl due to the slim build of the body. Canadian anthropologist and pathologist Prof. Heather Gill-Robinson proofed it to be a boy using DNA-samples from the body. Grauballe man at Mosegaard-Museum, Denmark Bog bodies, also known as bog people, are preserved human bodies found in sphagnum bogs in Northern Europe, Britain and Ireland. ... Virgin boreal acid bogs at Browns Lake Bog, Ohio A bog is a wetland type that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Anthropology is the study of the physical and social characteristics of humanity through the examination of historical and present geographical distribution, cultural history, acculturation, and cultural relationships. ... Pathology (from Greek pathos, feeling, pain, suffering; and logos, study of; see also -ology) is the study of the processes underlying disease and other forms of illness, harmful abnormality, or dysfunction. ... The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions for the development and function of living organisms. ...

The boy was discovered by commercial peat cutters in 1952 and is now on display at The Landesmuseum at the Schloß Gottorf in Schleswig, Germany. Unfortunately, the peat cutting machinery had already severed one of its hands, a foot and a leg by the time it was stopped. Nevertheless, the body had been very well preserved by the peat and proved to be an important archaeological discovery. Shortly following it, a second, male body was found nearby and named Windeby II. Gottorp in 1864 Gottorf (in Danish, Gottorp) is a palace and estate in the German city of Schleswig in the Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein. ... The region of Schleswig (former English name: Sleswick, Danish: Sønderjylland or Slesvig, Low German: Sleswig, North Frisian: Slaswik or Sleesweg) covers the area about 60 km north and 70 km south of the border between Germany and Denmark. ...

Today the body seams to have a half-shaven head and a woollen blindfold tied across the eyes. During new examinations scientists realised, that the hair on one side of the head was not shaved, it simply disintegrated on the side of the head, that was exposed to oxygen a little longer. The blindfold is in fact a woollen band in Sprang-technique used to tied the shoulderlength hair back - it slipped down onto the face after the boys death. The evidence suggests that the boy had been murdered, possibly as a sacrifice or a punishment. He was discovered underneath logs and branches, presumably to hold the body down. Sprang is an ancient method of constructing textiles. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Look up Punishment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

External links

• The mysterious bog people

Sources

• Michael Gebühr: Moorleichen in Schleswig-Holstein. Verein zur Förderung des Archäologischen Landesmuseums e.V., Schleswig 2002, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005. ISBN 3-529-01870-8
• Wijnand van der Sanden Mumien aus dem Moor - Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Moorleichen aus Nordwesteuropa. Drents Museum / Batavian Lion International. Amsterdam 1996. ISBN 9067074160