Man from Jührdenerfeld

Man from Jührdenerfeld in the museum's permanent exhibition

The man from Jührdenerfeld (also bog corpse from Bockhornerfeld ) is a bog corpse that was found in 1934 in Jührdenerfeld , municipality of Bockhorn in the district of Friesland . Today the body is under inventory no. OL 5933 and in addition to other bog bodies in the permanent exhibition of the State Museum for Nature and Man in Oldenburg.

Finding circumstances

The man from Jührdenerfeld was discovered on November 19, 1934 while digging a drainage ditch by the peat cutter Heinrich Stöfer from Wapeldorf in the raised bog and the following day he was brought to the State Museum of Natural History and Prehistory in Oldenburg . The dead man lay in an elongated, natural depression in the moor, above him were three thick, sharpened wooden stakes up to 160 cm long and about the width of an arm made of alder and mountain ash . One of the stakes lay lengthways on top of the dead body, the others were wedged across the wall of the depression at arm and pelvic level above it in order to hold the body down in place.
Location: 53 ° 19 '34.3 "  N , 8 ° 0' 7.8"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 19 '34.3 "  N , 8 ° 0' 7.8"  E

Findings

The man from Jührdenerfeld was lying in a hunched posture on his right side, his left leg was bent. Both arms and the right leg were missing, which is probably due to animal consumption . Small remnants of the arms were found next to the body. The deceased was medium-sized and around 35 years old at the time of death. The 15 cm long originally blonde hair and mustache were still in good condition and dyed red from storage in the bog. On the back and the front of the chest, the leather-like skin is still extensively preserved, on other parts of the body it has shrunk in wrinkles due to the viscera, muscle and fat tissue that had passed in the bog. The dead man was found largely unclothed in finding, however, he was with a woolen cloth and a shoulder cape of sheepskin been covered. There are several surviving comparative finds of this cloak, such as those of the wife of Elling , the boy of Kayhausen , the girl of Dröbnitz or the wife of Haraldskær . Possibly his other clothing was made of vegetable fibers, such as B. Cap that in the Moor acids passed are.

According to a pollen analysis, the time of death is between 400 BC. And the birth of Christ. More recent examinations of various samples of the corpse using ¹⁴ C dating have been able to narrow down this period further. A skin sample was dated between 170 and 45 BC and a hair sample between 55 BC. And 25 AD

literature

• Wijnand van der Sanden : Mummies from the moor. The prehistoric and protohistoric bog bodies from northwestern Europe . Batavian Lion International, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-6707-416-0 , pp. 81, 96–97, 99 (Dutch, original title: Vereeuwigd in het veen . Translated by Henning Stilke).
• H. Schütte: A bog body find in the Bockhorn field . In: The customer magazine for Lower Saxony archeology . tape 2 , 1935, ISSN  0342-0736 , p. 17-21 (first publication).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Pieper et al. a .: Bog corpses . In: Mamoun Fansa (ed.): Neither lake nor land. Bog - a lost landscape . Oldenburg 1999, ISBN 3-89598-591-0 , p. 53 .
2. ↑ Frank Both, Mamoun Fansa (Ed.): Fascination Moor Corpses: 220 Years of Moor Archeology . Zabern, Philipp von, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4360-2 , p. 67 .
3. ↑ Falk Georges Bechara: Histological, electron microscopic, immunohistological and IR spectroscopic investigations on the skin of 2000 year old bog corpses . Dissertation. Ruhr University, Bochum 2001, p. 29 f . ( www-brs.ub.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [PDF; accessed on October 20, 2009]).
4. ↑ Johannes van der Plicht, Wijnand van der Sanden , AT Aerts, HJ Streurman: Dating bog bodies by means of ¹⁴ C-AMS . In: Journal of Archaeological Science . tape 31 , no. 4 , 2004, ISSN  0305-4403 , p. 471–491 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jas.2003.09.012 (English, ub.rug.nl [PDF; 388 kB ; accessed on June 2, 2010]).