Ötzi the Iceman
Europe's oldest known natural mummy, found frozen at 3,210m in the Ötztal Alps in 1991; 61 tattoos and a near-pure copper axe make him a uniquely detailed window into Copper Age European life - and his death, from an arrow wound plus a skull fracture, into Copper Age violence.
Dated events and their evidence
- 3,300 BCE mainstream
death and preservation in Alpine ice source - 1991 CE mainstream
discovery by hikers at Tisenjoch source
Where
46.7789° N, 10.8392° E
Sources
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