Iceman Otzi tied to Stone Age farming
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 12:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Otzi the Iceman, an astonishingly well-preserved Neolithic mummy found in the Italian Alps in 1991, was a native of Central Europe, not a first-generation émigré from Sardinia, new research shows. And genetically, he looked a lot like other Stone Age farmers throughout Europe.