Husbäke's husband 1936

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Husbäke's husband

The man of Husbäke 1936 (also Husbäke 1936 , occasionally Husbäke II ) is a bog body , which on 15 October 1936 at the turf cutting in Vehnemoor in Edewecht in Lower Saxony found. Today the corpse is under the inventory number OL 5933 along with other bog corpses in the permanent exhibition of the State Museum for Nature and Man in Oldenburg.

Find

The bog corpse in the find location during the excavation

Since the 19th century this area of ​​the Vehnemoor has been pitted for the production of fuel, especially for roasting buckwheat . As early as 1931 the bog body Mann von Husbäke 1931 was found in the same bog about 8 meters south , which could only be brought to the museum badly damaged and was so badly damaged in the chaos of war due to insufficient care that it had to be disposed of in 1950. Husbäke's husband was found on October 15, 1936 in a poorly drained area of ​​the moor by the peat cutter Brünthen, who during his work came across the corpse's feet and lower legs in a freshly cut peat wall. He carefully removed about 50 cm of the peat layer from the body and notified the police. Upon arrival, the police immediately notified the museum in Oldenburg. On October 16, the find was discovered by the museum staff under Dr. Michaelsen and some spectators in the block with a layer of peat about 20 to 25 cm thick underneath. For this purpose, boards were driven into the peat layer around the find and then nailed to a transport box. Due to the layer of peat removed from above the corpse, it was no longer possible to see whether the corpse had been placed in a pit dug for this purpose. Husbäke's husband was lying on his stomach, his body stretched out. The body faced north-northwest, the head tilted north. The left arm lay under the side of the body with the palm facing downwards, the right arm was bent upwards under the right half of the body, the hand rested above the shoulder. His head was 110 cm and his right shoulder 145 cm below the surface, the arms and his left shoulder were lowest. When it was rescued, the skin, which was still soft, was a waxy white to light gray color, the skin was heavily swollen and had a lot of water. The body was completely preserved except for the feet. It was immediately taken to the State Museum in Oldenburg, where it was preserved dry due to the lack of suitable cooling facilities , which gave the skin its current hard leather-like consistency and its almost black color. No clothing or other items, or any remains of them, were found on the body.
Location: 53 ° 5 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 50.6 ″  E Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 50.6 ″  E

Findings

The body was exceptionally well preserved when it was recovered . The dead must have sunk into the peat bog very quickly and completely enclosed. The body was recovered almost completely in its original position. The roughly 17 to 20 year old man was about 1.75 m tall during his lifetime and had a short beard and mustache. No other items were found on him. Its skin is wrinkled and largely intact as a result of the drying process; it is only torn over a few exposed bones. The structures of the skin surface are clearly visible and the roots of the body hair are still clearly recognizable as light points. The man's skull was only flattened after his death by the pressure of the layer of moor above. The nasal cartilage was gone. The cartilage of the auricles was clearly visible through the hair when it was recovered. The man's hair was strikingly thick and strong. The hair, which was still blonde during the rescue, quickly turned red-brown with a slight bluish shimmer due to the supply of light and oxygen. The hair was originally wavy to slightly curly. His hairstyle was about 12 cm long on the back of his head. In the neck, in front of the ears and over the forehead, the hair was cut to 3 to 5 cm. His mustache was trimmed to 6 mm and extends as a narrow strip to the corners of his mouth. On his chin he wore a trimmed and narrow beard that reached to the tip of his chin . The rest of the chin, cheeks, and neck were carefully shaved with no visible stubble. The upper lip is lifted from the facial skin that has contracted as a result of the drying process and reveals the teeth of the upper jaw and some empty tooth cavities. The teeth have also shrunk due to decalcification and drying, but they are still in their natural shape and firm consistency. During the rescue, the dentition was still complete, whereas now some teeth have been loosened and are missing. The teeth were only very moderately chewed and corresponded to the typical teeth of a young person. Only decalcified bones, hair, all fingernails and connective tissue remained from the body of the corpse, whereas muscles and fatty tissue were lost in the moor. The fingernails were well preserved and showed careful maintenance, but have failed. The right hand is complete, the left except for the thumb. They clearly show the course of the tendons and the nail beds . When they were recovered, the bones were pliable and in their natural shape, the cartilage layers were preserved and of a shiny black color. Now the cartilage is only present as thin leaflets. One year after the preservation, the chest was opened for examination of the internal organs with a vertical incision. The intestines had shrunk considerably as a result of the drying and had changed in color and shape, but still identifiable. However, many details were no longer recognizable. A fish bone and remains of millet and barley grains were found in his stomach . The sex was determined on the basis of facial hair, as the presumed genitals that were still observed during the recovery are no longer preserved today.

Cause of death

There was no trace of violence on his body. As far as can be seen, the surrounding peat layers showed no artificial changes such as a dug pit. The prone position of the deceased suggests that he accidentally had an accident in the moor and sank there. But it is also possible that he ended up dead in the moor.

Dating

The corpse was initially dated to the 6th - 3rd centuries BC on the basis of the pollen analysis of the peat layer surrounding it . A 14 C dating of some of the man's skin and hair samples revealed a time of death between 75 and 215 AD.

On the basis of the extensive data from the computed tomographic examination, the museum had a digital facial reconstruction made that attempts to reproduce the possible appearance of the man during his lifetime.

literature

  • Frank Both, Mamoun Fansa (Ed.): Fascination Moor Corpses: 220 Years of Moor Archeology . Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4360-2 , p. 21-32 .
  • 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. 31, 80, 97, 113 (Dutch, original title: Vereeuwigd in het veen . Translated by Henning Stilke).
  • Hajo Hayen : The bog bodies in the museum on the dam . In: Publications of the State Museum for Natural History and Prehistory Oldenburg . tape 6 . Isensee, Oldenburg 1987, ISBN 3-920557-73-5 , p. 69-73 .
  • Susanne Hummel, Felix Schilz: Work report DNA analyzes on bones of the bog corpse by Husbäke . In: Archaeological Communications from Northwest Germany . tape 27 , 2004, ISSN  0170-5776 , p. 81-82 .
  • Hajo Hayen: The bog body from Husbäke 1936 . In: Archaeological Communications from Northwest Germany . tape 4 , 1981, ISSN  0170-5776 , pp. 23-41 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hajo Hayen : The bog body from Husbäke 1931 . In: Archaeological Communications from Northwest Germany . tape 2 , 1979, ISSN  0170-5776 , pp. 48-55 .
  2. ↑ Frank Both, Mamoun Fansa (Ed.): Fascination Moor Corpses: 220 Years of Moor Archeology . Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4360-2 , p. 16, 24 .
  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. 26th 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]).
  5. ↑ Husbäke's bog body. (No longer available online.) In: News from science. State Museum for Nature and Man , archived from the original on August 20, 2007 ; Retrieved December 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.naturundmensch.de
personal data
SURNAME Husbäke's husband 1936
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Husbäke 1936
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bog corpse
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century or 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH between 75 and 215
Place of death at Edewecht