
Per the NYT article: From examining traces of pollen in his digestive tract, scientists were able to place the date of Ötzi’s death at sometime in late spring or early summer. This should be of interest to us hikers, climbers, skiers and explorers of mountains and alpine environments. the Tyrolean Iceman, and the Hauslabjoch mummy) is a nickname given to the well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived around 3,300 BCE, more precisely between 33 BCE

His body had been exposed as the glacier covering him had retreated.


Who Killed the Iceman? is an article recently published in the New York Times about the forensic analysis being performed on Otzi the Copper Age man who was discovered near the Italian Austrian border by two German tourists in 1991.
