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Windeby I is the name given to the
bog body found preserved in a
peat bog near
Windeby, Northern
Germany, in 1952. Until recently, the body was also called the Windeby Girl, since an
archeologist believed it to be the body of a 14-year-old girl, because of its slight build. Prof. Heather Gill-Robinson, a
Canadiananthropologist and
pathologist, used
DNA testing to show the body was actually that of a sixteen-year-old boy.[1] The body has been radiocarbon-dated to between 41 BC and 118 AD.[2]
Cause of death
It was thought by P.V. Glob that the body had met with a violent death (The Bog People, Glob, 1969, p114), but research by Dr. Heather Gill-Robinson has led to this theory being disputed.[3] Jarrett A. Lobell and Samir S. Patel wrote that the body 'shows no signs of trauma, and evidence from the skeleton suggests [she] may have died from repeated bouts of illness or malnutrition.'[4]
Bones of Windeby I temporarily on display at Archäologisches LandesmuseumReconstruction process of the face, by Richard Helmer.
^Gill-Robinson, Heather Catherine (2006). The iron age bog bodies of the Archaeologisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany. Manitoba: University of Manitoba.
ISBN978-0-494-12259-4. (Doctors thesis)
^Gebühr (2002) p. 47; cited in the corresponding article on German Wikipedia