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The Iceman
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An Amazing Find

• Frozen body discovered in September of 1991
• Scientists later discover that the frozen body is
  over 5,000 years old

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Findspot Northern Italy about 10,500 feet above
sea level
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• Today, a monument is
• erected at the site
• Otzi was found.

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• Archaeologists and historians can sometimes
  make conclusions about life in past cultures.
  One of the ways they do this is by looking
  closely at information about one or two
  individuals

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• His clothing included
• two shoes
• a kind of goatskin poncho  or coat
• a bear fur cap ties with two leather straps 
• two goatskin leggings
• a goatskin loincloth
• a woven grass mat (purpose unknown)

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• His equipment included    
• a longbow made of yew
• a chamois hide quiver
• fourteen arrows (only two finished) 
• a copper ax
• a flint-bladed dagger with a woven sheath
• a tool for sharpening (retouching) flint
• a larch wood frame and cords of a backpack
• ibex bones
• two birch-bark cylinders
• a calf leather belt pouch
• a tassel made with a white marble bead and
  twisted hide strips
• two pieces of birch fungus (each threaded with
  hide strips)
• other tools

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Equipment

• Flint sharpener
• ax

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• Dagger and sheath
• Belt and attached
• items

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• Otzi is housed today in the South Tyrol Museum
  of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy

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• Archaeologists use science to study and interpret
  the remains of past cultures.

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• Our understanding of prehistory, or the time
  before writing was invented, is often based on
  the work done by archaeologists.

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Questions in Notetaking Outline

• 1. The video indicated that Otzi was found in
  the autumn. How is the time of year important to
  the discovery?
• 2. What questions would you like to ask Otzi?
  (at least two)
• 3. Why were Otzis teeth worn away?
• 4. What do scientists hope to learn by studying
  Otzi and his belongings
• 5. Would you like to see Otzi? Why or why not?
• 6. Why did the discovery of Otzi cause such an
  international dispute?