2. Ötzal Mountains (Italian Alps…near Austria)

3. The Scene

4. The Discovery

5. The Recovery

6. Ötzi the Iceman

7. Scientific Testing

8. What did Otzi eat?
Analysis of Otzi's gut contents showed two meals: one of ibex meat, the second of red deer meat, both consumed with some grain (more than likely bread.) Pollen in the first meal showed that it had been consumed in a mid-altitude conifer forest.

9. The “find”

10. Otzi’s Tools

11. Copper Axe

12. Dagger and Sheath

13. Otzi’s Shoes

14. Quiver (for arrows)

15. Arrows

16. Flint Sharpening tool

17. Medicine Kit 2 polypore mushrooms
Medicine Kit 2 polypore mushrooms. One of these (the birch fungus) is known to have antibacterial properties.

18. Tattoos – acupuncture?

19. Lyme’s Disease
While testing Otzi’s DNA, they found evidence of other microbes, including the Lyme disease bacterium.

20. With over 100 billion people who have existed on the planet during that time, Otzi has managed to “outlive” them all…but helps remind us what it is to be Human..