In 1991, hikers in the Ötztal Alps near the Italian-Austrian border stumbled upon what appeared to be a human corpse jutting out of the ice and meltwater. The body was extracted, and after exhaustive examination, researchers concluded that the glacier mummy was a 45-year-old male, about 1.6 meters 5 foot 3 inches tall and weighing 50 kilograms 110 pounds. Analyses of his tissue samples and possessions — which included an axe, dagger, bow and arrows, a full set of clothing, and a first aid kit — indicate that he lived about 5,300 years ago in the Copper Age. He likely died from an arrowhead wound in his left shoulder. Ötzi the Iceman, as he came to be called, is house in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Italy.

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