Ancient men also look red

The Iron Age life may be disgusting, vulgar and short-lived, but people still had enough time to make hair and nail polish, which was only for men.

Iron Age men. (Photo: hantsmustrust) It was the result of scientists after learning the new prehistoric bodies excavated from the swamp in Ireland - first found in Europe for 20 years.

One of the corpses, found at Clonycavan near Dublin, had a Mohawk-style haircut (North American aborigines) and still had pure gel. The second excavated body 40 km away at Oldcroghan has perfectly edited nails.

"I think the message is drawn that even though they live in different times, other cultures, eat other things, live the other way, people are still people - think together , " Rolly Read. , at the National Museum of Ireland, said.

Read said the latest results opened up curious curiosities about Iron Age life.

For example, the hair beauty product used by Clonycavan is a gel made from vegetable oil and pine resin imported from France or Spain. This shows that trade relations between Ireland and southern Europe took place nearly 2.5 millennia ago.

Scientists still wonder why these mummies are in the swamp and why many of them have signs of violence before they die , as well as they are executed for committing crimes or in suspicion. sacrificial consciousness.

Dr. Eamonn Kelly
(Photo: bristol.ac.uk)

Both Clonycavan and Oldcroghan men, who were over 20 when they died, experienced a grisly end - bearing traces of terrible torture, including the removal of the nipples.

Like many other bodies, Oldcroghan man was beheaded. Another man still has a rope around his neck.

Pruned nails and good diet evidence - not to mention the need to use imported cosmetics - show that they are upper class people.

Eamonn Kelly, from the Irish Museum, developed a new hypothesis based on the fact that most corpses are located near the borders of the kingdoms or the tribal boundaries.

"These people may be the deposed king or the hostage is executed to assert the reign of the new king. It is also part of the ritual of giving the gods," Kelly said.

According to another theory, given by the Roman historian of Tacitus, despicable criminals were thrown into the swamp so that their souls were buried in a prison pond that made the body unable to disintegrate.

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