Summary of Otzi the Iceman~

Otzi was found on 19 September 1991 by Erika Simon and her husband Helmut. At there, they found many things like copper axe, clothes, etc. They learned about Otzi's live. Specialist in botany glaciology, prehistory and anatomy arrived in Austria to examine Otzi and study a prehistory person and his possesions, they hoped to learn what early European people were like. Otzi came to be buried under the glacier for 5300 years. Otzi was 20 years old when he died. Otzi was a pet name for him, it was "after Otzaler Alps where he was found". Otzi used a bow and arrows to survive from the animal and to survive from the killer.. Otzi died because of the arrows at his back. Historian believe that Otzi may have come from one of two different areas of settlement, one in norhten Italy between Milan and Venice, the other in southern Switzerland and Austria. Now, Otzi's body had been saved at museum.