Bogosphere: The Strangest Things Pulled Out of Peat Bogs
via wired.com
Ok, I'm in a history / weird science mode these last 24 hours.
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"While we don’t know much about the people who wandered these bogs thousands of years ago, analytical chemistry has helped identify substances that make them seem startlingly modern. One corpse’s hair appears to have been coated with primitive hair gel, made from “vegetable oil mixed with resin from pine trees found in Spain and southwest France.” The man lived around 300 B.C."
