OETZI ICEMAN
Name: Oetzi Iceman
Born fl. c.3300 BC near the present village of Feldthurns (Velturno), north of Bolzano, Italy
Died fl. c.3300 BC Schnalstal glacier, Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria
and Italy
Victim of a crime or ritual sacrifice
Oetzi the Iceman , Frozen Fritz, and Similaun Man
are modern nicknames of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300
BC (53 centuries ago), found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal
Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. The nickname
comes from Ötztal, the region in which he was discovered. He is Europe's oldest
natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper
Age) Europeans.
Oetzi the Iceman while still frozen in the glacier, photographed by Helmut Simon
upon the discovery of the body in September 1991.
Name: Oetzi Iceman
Born fl. c.3300 BC near the present village of Feldthurns (Velturno), north of Bolzano, Italy
Died fl. c.3300 BC Schnalstal glacier, Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria
and Italy
Victim of a crime or ritual sacrifice
Oetzi the Iceman , Frozen Fritz, and Similaun Man
are modern nicknames of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300
BC (53 centuries ago), found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal
Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. The nickname
comes from Ötztal, the region in which he was discovered. He is Europe's oldest
natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper
Age) Europeans.
Oetzi the Iceman while still frozen in the glacier, photographed by Helmut Simon
upon the discovery of the body in September 1991.