March 31, 2012
Archeology is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and the environmental data that is left behind that can include biofacts, cultural landscapes, artifacts and architecture. Archeology is very important when learning about prehistoric societies because there were no written records to study.
When peat-lands and bogs first started to grow, they expanded over the landscape and people were already living around them. These areas have preserved many riches such as recording the history of vegetation change since the Ice Age. Bogs have recorded earliest Irish history and prehistoric times. Things that have been discovered in peat-land and bogs consist of human bodies, weapons/ornaments of metal, tools, articles of clothing and block of butter.
*This blog was just an introduction to Archeology and a brief description of what peat-lands has done to preserve history*
Information: Wurm, K. M. (n.d.). Archived in Peat. Retrieved March 30, 2012, from Pathways to Cultural Landscape: http://www.pcl-eu.de/virt_ex/detail.php?entry=09hoard
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