Bog bodies are among the best-known archaeological finds worldwide. Much of the work on these often extremely well-preserved human remains has focused on forensics, whereas the environmental setting of the finds has been largely overlooked. This applies to both the ‘physical’ and ‘cultural’ landscape and constitutes a significant problem since the vast spatial and temporal scales over which the practice appeared demonstrate that contextual assessments are of the utmost importance for our explanatory frameworks. In this article we develop best practice guidelines for the contextual analysis of bog bodies, after assessing the current state of research and presenting the results of three recent case studies including the well-known finds of Lindow Man in the United Kingdom, Bjældskovdal (Tollund Man and Elling Woman) in Denmark, and Yde Girl in the Netherlands. Three spatial and chronological scales are distinguished and linked to specific research questions and methods. This provides a basis for further discussion and a starting point for developing approaches to bog body finds and future discoveries, while facilitating and optimizing the re-analysis of previous studies, making it possible to compare deposition sites across time and space.

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上下文中的沼泽体：开发最佳实践方法

沼泽尸体是世界上最著名的考古发现之一。这些通常保存完好的人类遗骸的大部分工作都集中在法医上，而这些发现的环境背景却在很大程度上被忽视了。这适用于“物理”和“文化”景观，并构成一个重大问题，因为实践出现的巨大空间和时间尺度表明，背景评估对于我们的解释框架至关重要。在本文中，我们在评估当前研究状态并展示最近三个案例研究的结果（包括英国 Lindow Man 的著名发现 Bjældskovdal（Tollund Man和 Elling Woman）在丹麦，和荷兰的 Yde Girl。三个空间和时间尺度被区分并与特定的研究问题和方法相关联。这为进一步讨论提供了基础，并为开发沼泽体发现和未来发现的方法提供了起点，同时促进和优化了对先前研究的重新分析，从而可以跨时间和空间比较沉积地点。