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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; 2nd Revised edition edition (6 Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753812606
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753812600
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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In 1991 the world was electrified by a chance discovery of a perfectly preserved corpse trapped in an Alpine glacier. Preliminary tests showed that this was the body of a Neolithic hunter who died some 5300 years ago. Now Dr Konrad Spindler, the leader of an international team of scientists examining the body, makes the results of his investigations public for the first time and answers a series of fascinating questions about the Ice Man' and the clues he can give us to the nature of daily life in the late Stone Age. The result is a riveting scientific detective story, giving us the fullest picture yet of Neolithic Man - our ancestor.
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1.0 out of 5 stars will the reputation of innsbruck university ever recover?, 10 April 2009
From the botched police investigation of a dead body on a glacier, to the wrong, wrong, and wrong again speculations of the glory bagging and in-fighting academics of austria, this is a story not to be missed. Pity the professor who wrote this book happens to have been the principal back stabber, but it's amusing to see now how much he got wrong. Example: from prehistoric leaves, he concluded the wrong season for the death of the man he calls Otzi (after the Austrian side of the mountain chain).

The initial police investigation (a suspect death, no missing climber reported in the vicinity) lost enormous quantities of material. (they used a hot water hose to wash it away.) If you're ever thinking of doing a murder, ask them to repeat the exercise.

The research (bedevilled by the fact that officially the body was found in italy) was laughably amateurish. the professor and the pathologist don't get on. carbon dating results differ wildly and they want to mash up ever greater amounts of material...

Finally the Austrians, with bad grace, give up their prize to the italians. Here things have since got a bit clearer. The man did not die naturally (of cold), he was shot in the back with a stone tipped arrow clealry visible on the original radiographs.

The professor writes a concluding chapter of speculation. The italians have since disproved this, since he had recently travelled across the divide several times. Here's my speculation: 1. the man was lame. (a lame man never bothers the sheep being an old saying, and his age and his travels suggest he was a shepherd boss.) 2. looking at the map you can see why the tribe on the italian side would traditionally herd sheep on the level top of the mountain (easy access) but the austrian tribe wouldn't (the Otztal is long, narrow and avalanche prone) 3. at the height of the global warming, a dispute over grazing rights breaks out, because now the austrians can get up to the watershed. 4. the italians send a man t negotiate, a deal is assumed to be done, but isn't, violence flares... the man is shot, his shepherds desert him.

This theory is probably tosh, but is no more tosh than the professor's. Thank goodness the italians have now "got their man" and created for him a good museum and are doing proper research. You can see its progress by googling "ice man". Better do that, though reading what is basically a "How Not To Do It" book can be useful to budding archaeologists.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating insight into Stone Age culture and archaeological method, 15 Mar 2007
By S. Bailey "will work for books" (London) - See all my reviews
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In 1991, a body was discovered partially hidden in meltwater from an Austrian glacier. Initially thought to be a recent murder or accident victim, Konrad Spindler had the entirely enviable task of explaining to waiting journalists that this was in fact the remains of a 5000 year old man. It's his tendency to entirely justifiable theatrics that make his archaeology such fun to read.

Almost as interesting as the archaeology is the preliminary tale of the politics of possession. For those of us who've made our escape from academe and might regret it, it's always instructive to be reminded that scholars get so little cash or kudos that when an opportunity like this one comes along, it's not to be missed. Hence the ongoing battle for Ötzi the ice man between the Austrians and the Italians on the other side of the valley.

The middle third of the book provides an exhaustive catalogue and commentary on the items found in the vicinity of the body. Many of these are the sole relics of their type ever found; certainly as a group they are totally unique. The clothing in particular is fascinating; personally I think if I were wearing straw-stuffed boots and a grass cloak, up a mountain would not be my first choice of place to be.

So often we think of the Stone Age in such dead terms: cave pictures, a few crude tools, the remains of a rubbish dump. This is a chance (perhaps the only chance) to see these people in terms of humanity, in a living, breathing, functioning scenario. The final section of the book attempts to place the entire find into context, of what is known already of the Iceman's society, and of the more general conclusions which might be drawn from his evidence. Spindler is quick to point out that much of this is speculative, and subject to change: this is fortunate as subsequent reseach has shown that a piece of evidence for the cause of death from the body itself was overlooked for ten years.

This is a fascinating book, as much for its insights into archaeological methodology as Stone Age culture itself. Recommended.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Man in the Ice, 31 Oct 2006
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This review is from: The Man in the Ice: The Preserved Body of a Neolithic Man Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age (Hardcover)
Many of us know something of the 1991 find in a high Alpine glacier and have watched the documentaries and would like to know more. This book tells you more but, at least in the beginning of the book, goes into such irrelevant detail as to become tedious. However the reading becomes easier and is very informative, boarding on the academic. The end is spoiled by some swipes other less acemedically qualified authors
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