„Moora” – Das Mädchen aus dem Uchter Moor

In 2000 peat-cutters at work discovered remains of a human corpse in a bog at Uchte in Lower Saxony, which was subjected to investigatory work as a potential criminal case, before it was recognized in 2005 to represent a young female bog body of the pre-Roman Iron Age around 650 B.C. and thus the first bog body from Lower Saxony in the past 50 years. Ten years after the initial publication [MAN 37], this is the second volume with the natural scientific results on the deceased. Its 15 papers deal with the archaeology and palaeobotany of the Bronze Age bog track Su 3, the physical anthropology and palaeopathology of skull and body, research by CT scan, microscopy, and fluorescence microscopy, histological analyses of the skin, Moora’s “biography”, a computer-based skull reconstruction and facial reconstructions, the persistence of analysable DNA from bones, the results of x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, trace elements in Moora’s hair and peat from the find spot, the girl’s environment from a palaeo-ecological point of view, as well as a 3-D reconstruction of the Iron Age bog landscape near Uchte.