Ötzi the Iceman

Ötzi
Born	c. 3300 BCE near the present village of Feldthurns (Velturno), north of Bolzano, Italy
Died	c. 3345 BCE (aged about 45) Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy
Cause of death	Exsanguination due to arrow wound on his shoulder
Other names	Ötzi the Iceman Similaun Man "Frozen Fritz" Man from Hauslabjoch Hauslabjoch mummy Frozen Man
Known for	Oldest natural mummy of a Chalcolithic (Copper Age) European man
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	50 kg (110 lb; 7.9 st) (when alive)
Website	South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology

Ötzi (German pronunciation: [ˈœtsi]; also called the Iceman, the Similaun Man, the Man from Hauslabjoch, the Tyrolean Iceman, Homo tyrolensis, 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 3359 and 3105 BCE, with a 66 percent chance that he died between 3239 and 3105 BCE. The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, hence the nickname "Ötzi", near Similaun mountain and Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic Europeans. His body and belongings are displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.

Ötzi was found on 19 September 1991 by two German tourists, at an elevation of 3,210 metres (10,530 ft) on the east ridge of the Fineilspitze in the Ötztal Alps on the Austrian–Italian border. The tourists, Helmut and Erika Simon, were walking off the path between the mountain passes Hauslabjoch and Tisenjoch. They believed that the body was of a recently deceased mountaineer. The next day, a mountain gendarme and the keeper of the nearby Similaunhütte first attempted to remove the body, which was frozen in ice below the torso, using a pneumatic drill and ice-axes, but had to give up due to bad weather. The next day, eight groups visited the site, among whom happened to be the famous mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner. The body was semi-officially extracted on 22 September and officially salvaged the following day. It was transported to the office of the medical examiner in Innsbruck, together with other objects found. On 24 September the find was examined there by archaeologist Konrad Spindler of the University of Innsbruck. He dated the find to be "about four thousand years old", based on the typology of an axe among the retrieved objects.

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