The thing about bogs is that they’re a great place to put something you don’t want found. Like a body. Bogs are in a few places across northern Europe, and the vast majority of bog bodies are of people who died violently.
So it could be bodies of people killed by mob violence, like a thief that came to town. But also people robbed. The point is to get rid of a body and not have a reason to bury them like everyone else in town. Even if we entertain Occam’s razor a bit, ritual sacrifice that was similar across unconnected places vs. run of the mill human violence makes the sacrifice angle hard to accept as the singular answer for 1800 bodies.
The thing about bogs is that they’re a great place to put something you don’t want found. Like a body. Bogs are in a few places across northern Europe, and the vast majority of bog bodies are of people who died violently.
So it could be bodies of people killed by mob violence, like a thief that came to town. But also people robbed. The point is to get rid of a body and not have a reason to bury them like everyone else in town. Even if we entertain Occam’s razor a bit, ritual sacrifice that was similar across unconnected places vs. run of the mill human violence makes the sacrifice angle hard to accept as the singular answer for 1800 bodies.