Ötzi the Iceman

Mysteries of the Iceman tzi the iceman was stumbled upon by a pair of hikers in 1991 on the border of Italy and Austria with half his body beneath ice. He was found with different tools and equipment and was dead for a very long time before they found his body. His body was then examined by researchers and they were able to find many interesting things such as tattoos, injuries, fractured ribs, a missing rib, and something else in his body near his shoulder. tzi is still very mysterious to me and I have many questions about him. Five of those questions are how he died, what he was doing in the area that they found him in, how old he was when he died, what is the object they found inside of him, and do those tattoos on him mean anything important? Do the tattoos on him mean anything important? I believe that they may signify…

Otzi the Iceman PBS NOVA Iceman Murder Mystery 2011. YouTube, 16 Feb. 2013. Web. 23 Oct. 2016. Jessica Alcala Professor Patrick O’ Neil Anthropology Introduction: In September 1991, a pair of hikers wandered off the trail in the Italian Alps discovered a frozen body laying on a rock. The body was later confirmed by experts to be the preserved body of a man who was about five thousand years old during the the time of the Neolithic era. The man was named “Otzi” after the…