[blam]

The copper axe found with Oetzi moved the known age of copper back by 1,000 years.

[blam]

ping.

[aBootes]

Bump for the Ice Man. Always like to keep up with the latest on the late gentleman. Thanks for posting.

[JoeFromCA]

I was in Bolzano (Bozen to the Austrians) earlier this month and saw the Iceman exhibit at the new South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. It's quite amazing.

Not only did the corpse survive in pretty good shape, but all his clothes and equipment are on display. Very interesting. The collection on exhibit documents the entire history of South Tyrol from the Palaeonlithic and Mesolithic Age (15,000 BC) to the Carolingian period (around 800 AD).

[19th LA Inf]

The poor guy. I'm reminded of The Cremation of Sam Mcgee (Robert Service). "Since I left Plumtree down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm!"

[Lion Den Dan]

bump. Thanks for a great one.

[JoeFromCA]

Anybody interested in the Iceman and the exhibit should go to: www.iceman.it
Click on English and you'll get a page, for example, showing all the equipment found with him. To see the various pieces of equipment scroll to the right of the screen and you'll see numbered pages 1-10 to click on. The axe was the most significant equipment find, and the poster who observed that it placed the bronze age much earlier is exactly right.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Why the fight? Everyone knows that if he was from Northern Tyrol he would have been wearing a gray cap with two, braided green bands around it.