Friday
Night Lecture Series
Season
Premiere: “History and Mystery in Danish
Bogs, Interpreting Bog Bodies”
When:
Where:
The
special properties of bogs have held the secret of our ancestors preserved in
their watery graves through time and change.
One period above all others, that of the European Iron Age, has revealed
larger number of bodies deposited in bogs in natural burial. Were these people the subject of crime or of
ritual sacrifice? The challenge for
archaeologists today is to understand the message that those silent lips cannot
speak. Teresa Taylor, a faculty member
at PSU, will explore with us these mysteries.
Lecture is free. Public is always welcome.
Refreshments
will be served afterwards in the Finnish Room, Cramer Hall.
This presentation is sponsored by the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation and PSU Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Information: Aase Besson, 503-635-2542, Friday Night Lecture Series Committee
Member.
2006-2007
Schedule:
January 2007 (date TBA): "Early History of Moscow" with Dr. Sandra Freels Rosengrant