Testimony from the Iceman. Bob Cullen.
by Cullen, Bob; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 25Science. Publisher: Smithsonian, 2003ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Antiquities -- Prehistoric | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy | Forensic pathology | Neolithic period | Otzi (Ice mummy) | Prehistoric peoples -- EuropeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The body looks like a skeleton wrapped tightly in hairless skin--skin the brown of a roasted turkey. It gleams with a glaze of ice that is left undefrosted to protect it. It is 1.60 meters tall--about 5 feet 3 inches--and weighs 13.78 kilograms, or a carefully monitored 30.32 pounds." (SMITHSONIAN) This article explains what scientists have learned about Neolithic life by studying the remains and artifacts of a 5,000-plus-year-old man discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Testimony from the Iceman, Feb. 2003; pp. 42+.
"The body looks like a skeleton wrapped tightly in hairless skin--skin the brown of a roasted turkey. It gleams with a glaze of ice that is left undefrosted to protect it. It is 1.60 meters tall--about 5 feet 3 inches--and weighs 13.78 kilograms, or a carefully monitored 30.32 pounds." (SMITHSONIAN) This article explains what scientists have learned about Neolithic life by studying the remains and artifacts of a 5,000-plus-year-old man discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991.
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