ANALYSING SOURCES WHO WAS ÖTZI THE ICEMAN? – AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION
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CONTRIBUTION OF ARCHAEOLOGY
NEW TECHNOLOGY HISTORICAL EMPATHY
●●Copper axe with a yew handle ●●Flint blade knife ●●Quiver with 14 arrows ●●Longbow
●●Different types of pollen were found in his stomach and on his clothes
Ötzi’s clothes on display at the Museum of Archaeology, Bolzano, Italy: Top left: A shoe with grass inside (left) and leather outside (right); Top right: the leather coat
(reassembled by the museum); Bottom left: leather loincloth; grass coat; fur hat; and leather leggings
FRANCE Horgen Cortaillod SWITZERLAND
DISCOVERY SITE OF ICEMAN
Sion
Great St. Bernard Pass
Aosta Turin ITALY
Mont Bego MONACO
Trade route Val Camonica Milan Po Arco Monte Covolo
GERMANY Hornstaad Zürich LIECH. Lake Constance
AUSTRIA Innsbrook
Laces
Vent Brenner Pass Ötztal Alps Bolzano
Possible trade route
Trento
Monti Lessini Verona
Venice Focus Task ›● Undertake further research on Ötzi the Iceman.
›● What role did new technology play in investigating his life (see pp. 9–13)? Why was he so well preserved when he was found? How is he preserved today?
Mediterranean Sea
●●The copper in his axe came from further south in Tuscany, Italy
Who will be the experts on Ötzi the Iceman?
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●●Last two meals, goat and deer meat, wheat/bread, roots and fruit
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What does Ötzi’s story tell you about the work of the archaeologist?
