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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| Rating | : | 4.41 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0517799693 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 305 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. A surprising picture emerges of Neolithic folk medicine, farming, stockbreeding and culture. In an astonishing, exhaustively detailed report (with 32 color photos), which reads like a forensic mystery, Spindler, the Austrian archeologist who led the investigation, reconstructs efforts to identify this prehistoric hunter's native village, culture and cause of death. Dubbed "the Iceman," he had charcoal tattoos on his legs and feet and a traveling medicine kit-pieces of birch fungus known to contain a natural antibiotic substance highly active against deadly bacteria. From Publishers Weekly In 1991, a couple from Nuremberg, Germany, vacationing in the Austrian Alps made a sensational
A classic of scientific discovery that reveals to us the fullest picture yet of Neolithic man, our ancestor.. The story of the amazing discovery of a man frozen in the Alpine ice, told by the leader of the international team of scientists who investigated the find
Ice Man Delivers Robb K. Konrad Spindler's The Man in the Ice is a good account of the discovery and early analytical testing of the of Otzi as the mummy soon will be called.Spindler has broken the story up into three parts. The first discusses the discovery and the recovery of the body. Thought at first to be just another hapless soul that found his demise hiking in the Southern Tyrol not more than 50 years ago, an event that does not interest anyone. As a matter of fact he is just one of eight found so far that year. Both the Austrian and Italian governments. Amazon Customer said Four Stars. good information. A little high level for middle school students, but a good reference for the teachers. Only worth reading for description of equipment Priamsdaughter If this is the only book you expect to ever read about the mummified Neolithic corpse found in the ice in 1991 then buy it. It is worth reading for the excellent and detailed description of the equipment which belonged to this long dead being. If, however, you have watched the PBS show on ice mummies or read some of the monographs on the subject on the Net, you realize that much of Spindler's book is baseless conjecture and that he omits important medical data. Bottom line: when a really excellent and definitive volume on the Ice Man i