Editing Bog body (section)

===Mesolithic to Bronze Age===
The oldest bog body that has been identified is the [[Koelbjerg Man]] from Denmark, which has been dated to 8000 BC, during the [[Mesolithic]] period.<ref name="Fischer 237" />

Around 3900 BC,<ref>Official Danish history @http://denmark.dk/en/society/history/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827165007/http://denmark.dk/en/society/history |date=27 August 2017 }}</ref> agriculture was introduced to Denmark, either through cultural exchange or by migrating farmers, marking the beginning of the Neolithic in the region.<ref name="Bennike 27">[[#Ben99|Bennike 1999]]. p. 27.</ref> It was during the early part of this Neolithic period that a number of human corpses that were interred in the area's peat bogs left evidence that there had been resistance to its introduction.<ref name="Bennike 29">[[#Ben99|Bennike 1999]]. p. 29.</ref> A disproportionate number of the Early Neolithic bodies found in Danish bogs were aged between 16 and 20 at the time of their death and deposition, and suggestions have been put forward that they were either [[human sacrifices]] or criminals executed for their socially deviant behaviour.<ref name="Bennike 29" /> An example of a Bronze Age bog body is [[Cashel Man]], from 2000 BC.<ref name=kings />