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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ISBN: 0517886138 / Publisher: Three Rivers Press, February 1996
Describes the discovery of the body of a Neolithic hunter frozen in Alpine ice, and what it reveals about life in the late Stone Age
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Originally published in Germany by C. Bertelsmann, Verlag GmbH, Munich, 1994. This is a paper edition of Crown's1994 publication. In 1991, the body of a man trapped in a glacier in the +tzaler Alps on the Austrian-Italian border was discovered; preliminary tests showed that it was the body of a Neolithic hunter who died some 5,300 years ago. Spindler, leader of an international team of scientists investigating the body, details its discovery and analysis for a general readership. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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