Who Killed The Iceman Summary

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The article I read is Who Killed the Iceman? Clues Emerge in a Very Cold Case published by The New York Times on March 26th, 2017. This article is about how Detective Inspector Alexander Horn of the Munich Police was called by the head of a small Italian museum in Bolzano, Italy. Angelika Fleckinger is the director of the South Tyrol Museum of Archeology and wanted help solving a cold case. The case was about an unknown victim, nicknamed Ötzi, who has been in cold storage for a quarter-century. Ötzi is often called the Iceman as he is the worlds most perfectly preserved mummy, a Copper Age man who had been frozen inside a glacier along the Northern Italy border with Austria until warming global temperatures melted the ice and two hikers discovered him in 1991. The cause of …show more content…

The article mentioned that there are a few mummies around the world who are as well preserved like Ötzi. The glacier that froze Ötzi kept his organs and skin largely intact, which helped scientist even more. Forensic science is a key to help solve every modern murder case. But because Ötzi was over 5000 years old, scientists required the help of high tech techniques involving specialties like archeobotany and paleometallurgy. Scientist were able to recognize Ötzi as a 5 foot 5-inch man (which was the average height for this time), who weighed 110 pounds, had brown eyes and shoulder length, dark brown hair, and had a size 7 ½ foot size. He was about 45 years old which was reasonably old for the time period he lived in. Ötzi had the physique of a man who did a lot of walking, but his hands show that he was not a manual laborer. He barely had any fat on his body and had all of his teeth, but in between his two upper front teeth was a 3-mm gap, an inherited condition called Diastema. Scientists were able to find traces of pollen

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