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Ötzi: official history of the ice mummy partly rewritten

It is one of the oldest and best preserved mummies in the world: the 5,300-year-old ice mummy called Ötzi. 31 years after the sensational find in the Ötztal Alps, a newly published study concludes that the original explanation of how Ötzi was preserved does not fit with the most recent research. Conducted by a research team from Norway, Switzerland and Austria, the study was published in the journal "The Holocene".

07.11.2022

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"Ötzi, 30 years on: A reappraisal of the depositional and post-depositional history of the find", Lars Pilø, Thomas Reitmaier, Andrea Fischer, James H Barrett und Atle Nesje, The Holocene, 2022
DOI: 10.1177/09596836221126133

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