Yde Girl
Yde Girl
Yde Girl, named after the village in which she was founded, is a human remain that had been founded in Stijfveen peat bog Drenthe (refer to figure one), Netherlands in 1897. The Dutch peat cutters who had found her body first believing they had saw the devil, because of her red hair had had resulted in running away and returning a day after to cover her body with stacks of peat. Her body now in displayed in the Drents museum in Assen along with her modern reconstruction of her physical appearance. Due to various sources, Yde girls life have be told and theories have concluded of how she lived and the result and cause of her death at the age of sixteen.
Throughout her life, Yde girl had suffered from scoliosis. Scoliosis, “abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.” a medical condition in which the spinal cord is of abnormal curvature usually structured side to side and in which is a person has a vertebral abnormality sometimes gained at birth. As seen in figure two, scoliosis has an effect on ones spine and posture. Symptoms including the spine being obviously being curved or on a slant, one shoulder being at different height with each other and because of having this defect this had affected Yde girl’s height. Yde girls height had decreased because the bending of her back thus her being very short for her age at 4.5 feet tall. She also suffered from the slanting of the pelvis. Since her medical condition was not treated, she had been living with a limp favoured to her right leg and had been leaning to this one side. Due to this medical abnormality, this gives Yde girl having a motive of her being a possible sacrifice or executed in the Iron Age because of her abnormality. Since she had this defect, Yde girl would be a target for being a sacrifice or to be executed to get rid of the defect in order for it not to be passed down to future generations. From radiocarbon tests, her time of death was placed between 100 B.C. to A.D. 100 showing she was alive
Yde Girl, named after the village in which she was founded, is a human remain that had been founded in Stijfveen peat bog Drenthe (refer to figure one), Netherlands in 1897. The Dutch peat cutters who had found her body first believing they had saw the devil, because of her red hair had had resulted in running away and returning a day after to cover her body with stacks of peat. Her body now in displayed in the Drents museum in Assen along with her modern reconstruction of her physical appearance. Due to various sources, Yde girls life have be told and theories have concluded of how she lived and the result and cause of her death at the age of sixteen.
Throughout her life, Yde girl had suffered from scoliosis. Scoliosis, “abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.” a medical condition in which the spinal cord is of abnormal curvature usually structured side to side and in which is a person has a vertebral abnormality sometimes gained at birth. As seen in figure two, scoliosis has an effect on ones spine and posture. Symptoms including the spine being obviously being curved or on a slant, one shoulder being at different height with each other and because of having this defect this had affected Yde girl’s height. Yde girls height had decreased because the bending of her back thus her being very short for her age at 4.5 feet tall. She also suffered from the slanting of the pelvis. Since her medical condition was not treated, she had been living with a limp favoured to her right leg and had been leaning to this one side. Due to this medical abnormality, this gives Yde girl having a motive of her being a possible sacrifice or executed in the Iron Age because of her abnormality. Since she had this defect, Yde girl would be a target for being a sacrifice or to be executed to get rid of the defect in order for it not to be passed down to future generations. From radiocarbon tests, her time of death was placed between 100 B.C. to A.D. 100 showing she was alive
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