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The Iceman reviewed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Lawrence Barfield
Lawrence Barfield*
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Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, England
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Abstract

Two-and-a-half years ago, in September 1991, a mummified body was discovered in a high snowfield on the Italian-Austrian border. It dates to about 3200 BC. Several sources and accounts, mostly in German, now exist of ‘Ötzi the Iceman’, but there is no collected report in English. We invited Lawrence Barfield, himself a specialist on the region and period, and co-author of one of the first Ötzi books, to review these accounts of a great prehistoric discovery.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994 , pp. 10 - 26
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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