Iron Grip

Photograph courtesy C.S. Fuchs, NLD

Found in 2005, Moora’s hand (pictured) was conspicuously absent when her body had been discovered five years earlier.

The shriveled hand, said to have been accidentally cut off by the peat-collection machine, proved key to solving the mystery of Moora’s identity.

“We did radiocarbon dating of the corpse and of the peat that was collected with [the hand] and showed it was a body from the Iron Age,” Bauerochse said.

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Published February 2, 2011

 

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