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On Sept. 19, 1991, hikers were crossing a pass over the Ötztal valley in the Alps when they came across a body that was partially exposed in the ice. The hikers notified the authorities, who invested numerous days drawing out the mummified remains from the melting ice. When archaeologists lastly got a take a look at it, they recognized the mummy was not a missing out on 20th-century hiker however rather millennia-old human remains. The body of the middle-aged guy who passed away around 3300 B.C. would end up being referred to as Ötzi or the Iceman who exposed what daily life resembled throughout the Copper Age.
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Kristina Killgrove is a personnel author at Live Science with a concentrate on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her short articles have actually likewise appeared in locations such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss. Kristina holds a Ph.D. in biological sociology and an M.A. in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina, in addition to a B.A. in Latin from the University of Virginia, and she was previously a university teacher and scientist. She has actually gotten awards from the Society for American Archaeology and the American Anthropological Association for her science composing.
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