The man in the ice : the discovery of a 5,000-year-old body reveals the secrets of the stone age

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The man in the ice : the discovery of a 5,000-year-old body reveals the secrets of the stone age / Konrad Spindler and a team of international scientists ; [translated from the German by Ewald Osers].

Spindler, Konrad, 1939-2005 (Author).

Summary:

In 1991 The world was electrified by the chance discovery of the body of a man trapped in a glacier in the Otztaler Alps on the Austrian-Italian border. The corpse was almost perfectly preserved. Preliminary tests showed that this was the body of a Neolithic hunter who died some 5,300 years ago. The results of further investigations have been awaited with great excitement throughout the world. In The Man in the Ice, Dr. Konrad Spindler, the leader of an international team of scientists investigating the body, makes the results public for the first time - and totally refutes arguments that have challenged its authenticity. The Man in the Ice, scientifically accurate and detailed, is also a mesmerizing detective story. The pieces of equipment found with the body, in an extraordinary state of preservation, provide fascinating clues to the nature of daily life in the Stone Age. What, for example, can we learn about the area he inhabited from the charcoal in the container he carried? How were his bows, arrows, dagger, and axe made? Then there is the body itself, a treasure trove of information: microorganisms, parasites, hair, teeth, broken bones. Finally, what was the "ice man" doing in such an inhospitable and dangerous alpine region, so far from any human settlement - and how did he die?

Record details

ISBN: 0517799693
ISBN: 9780517799697
Physical Description: xi, 305 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Harmony Books, ©1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Translation of: Mann im Eis.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: [Pt. 1] Discovery, recovery, investigation -- [Pt. 2] The iceman's equipment -- [Pt. 3] The iceman's clothing -- [Pt. 4] The body -- [Pt. 5] The iceman and his world -- [Pt. 6] Reactions to the find.
Action Note:: committed to retain 20160630 20310630 EAST http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials This title retained by Wesleyan University Library on behalf of the Eastern Academic Scholars Trust (EAST) print archive