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Otzi the Iceman

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Archeoparc (Schnals valley / South Tyrol). Museum: Reconstruction of the neolithic clothes worn by Ötzi.
Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Where
Copper Age Alps
Culture
Copper Age Alps
Lived
about 3300 BCE
Why they matter
A 5,300-year-old man found frozen in a glacier in 1991.
Fate
Killed by an arrow in the shoulder.
This photo was taken or the shoes, a replica created by Czech researcher Dr. Petr Hlavácek, which were on display at the Bata Museum in Canada, during a tour given to wikimedias.
Alex Lozupone, CC BY 4.0
Reconstruction of the copper axe of Ötzi the Iceman. Reconstruction made by ArchäoTechnik Wulf Hein, Dorn-Assenheim, Germany.
Bullenwächter, CC BY 3.0
Ötzi the Iceman: Lithic assemblagea) dagger, b) endscraper, c) small flake, d) arrowhead 14, e) arrowhead 12, f) borer The original caption in Wierer et al read "The Iceman lithic assemblage. a) Dagger, b) Endscraper, c)
Wierer, U., Arrighi, S., Bertola, S., Kaufmann, G., Baumgarten, B., Pedrotti, A., Pernter, P. and Pelegrin, J., CC BY-SA 4.0
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Background

Ötzi (German: [œtsi]; c. 3275 BC – c. 3230 BC), also called The Iceman, Similaun man, or Tyrolean Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived during the 4th millennium BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname "Ötzi") at the Austria–Italy border. He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, showing an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans.

Because of the presence of an arrowhead embedded in his left shoulder and various other wounds, researchers believe that Ötzi was killed by another person. The nature of his life and the circumstances of his death are the subject of much investigation and speculation. His remains and personal belongings are on exhibit at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.

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