Research Catalog

Title

Iceman : uncovering the life and times of a prehistoric man found in an alpine glacier / Brenda Fowler.

Author

Fowler, Brenda.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

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Description

xv, 315 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"On September 19, 1991, a couple hiking along an Alpine ridge stumbled upon a frozen, intact corpse melting out of a glacier. He was dubbed "the Iceman," and the realization that he was actually 5,000 years old set off a whirlwind of political, scientific, and media activity that made him an overnight sensation. In this remarkable and dramatic book, Brenda Fowler takes readers through the bizarre odyssey that began in the Stone Age and continued for years after the Iceman was unearthed. In a new afterword Fowler looks back on the ten years since the discovery and shows that the Iceman continues to inspire controversy and wonder."--Jacket.

Subject

• Otzi (Ice mummy)
• Copper age > Hauslabjoch Pass
• Neolithic period > Hauslabjoch Pass
• Copper age > Alps
• Neolithic period > Alps
• Mummies
• Hauslabjoch Pass (Italy) > Antiquities
• Alps > Antiquities

Note

• Originally published: New York : Random House, c2000. With new afterword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-298) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue -- No Room in the Helicopter -- Ch. 1. The First to See It -- Ch. 2. A Difficult Recovery -- Ch. 3. A Great Moment for Science -- Ch. 4. Italy is Watching -- Ch. 5. Evidence of Distress -- Ch. 6. The Mummy to Market -- Ch. 7. A Castrated Egyptian -- Ch. 8. Spindler's Story -- Ch. 9. Expanding Markets -- Ch. 10. "A Proper Forefather" -- Ch. 11. The Place He Came to Lie.

ISBN

0226258238 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001027805

OCLC

46908083

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library