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Artifacts from these places include Springmount’s wax tablet psalter and a possible shaman’s “snake staff” from a Comb Ceramic site. Excavations of these places revealed a coaxial (“co-AX-ee-al”) Neolithic field system at Céide (“KAY-duh”), anthropomorphic “pole god” figures in Braak, and meals of a knotweed gruel given to “triple deaths.” (10[1])In one of these places, Cimbri (“KIM-bree”) possibly (10[1])dismantled (10[1])repoussé (“ruh-poo-SAY”) silver pieces that depict Cernunnos (“KAIR-noo-nohss”) and La Tène (“lah ten”) carnyx players. L’Anse aux Meadows (“LONCE oh meadows”) smelted limonite iron nodules from these places, which were spanned by “corduroy road” trackways. (10[1])These places preserved the Gundestrup (-5[1])(“goo-neh-STROPE”) Cauldron and waxy (10[1])butter. Nooses (-5[1])left (10[1])on people in these (10[1])places (10[1]-5[1])at Windeby (10[3])(“VIN-duh-bee”) and Borremose (10[1])(“BOR-uh-moo-zuh”) led P. V. Glob (-5[2])to (10[1])interpret those bodies as Iron Age human sacrifices. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the bodies of Lindow (10[2])Man and Tollund Man (10[1])were mummified (10[1])in what anaerobic wetlands? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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