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Prepared as he was for an Alpine outing, how did the Iceman perish? And what was he doing so high in the mountains? To Egg, the evidence suggests that the Iceman could have been a shepherd, part of a group tending sheep or cattle. Ekkehard Dreiseitel, a University of Innsbruck climatologist, agrees. "We know the weather 5,000 years ago was somewhat warmer. The pasturage in the high Alps ((above the tree line)) would have been tempting in the summer, since it requires no clearing of the forest." Because the ax resembles those found in Stone Age settlements near Brescia...
...been a custody battle every bit as absurd as the bungled recovery effort. "Rome was ready to demand the body back immediately," explains a South Tyrolean scientist. "It was then that we in South Tyrol pointed out that this province has authority over its own culture and patrimony." Innsbruck, of course, wanted to keep the celebrated corpse...
Last February a deal was struck requiring the University of Innsbruck to return the Iceman to South Tyrol no later than Sept. 19, 1994 -- three years from the discovery date. In an act of goodwill, the Innsbruck team last month marked the first anniversary of the discovery with a motorcade that carried the first edition of Der Mann im Eis, a 464-page scientific tome, to Bolzano, South Tyrol's capital...
With less than two years to go, Innsbruck scientists are hoping to conduct as much research as possible, while struggling with the costs of the Iceman's upkeep -- $10,000 a month. To help cover these expenses, they are charging high fees for photo opportunities and using profits from book sales and lecture tours. Rome hasn't made the research effort any easier. Authorities there, furious over the Iceman's mismanaged recovery, declared that the mummy is the archaeological equivalent of "a Leonardo" and warned that it should not be damaged "in any way." When Innsbruck sent out the snippets...
...bickering has seriously delayed examination of the Iceman's internal organs and analysis of his DNA, tests that could shed light on his diet, immune system and cause of death, and even help identify his closest living descendants. Innsbruck University anatomist Werner Platzer feels frustrated and bewildered: "The Italian ministry has told us that we are not allowed to destroy a bit of the body," he complains. On the other hand, "they say that if no research is carried out, the body must go to Rome for research purposes." As head of the anatomical-research project, Platzer has decided...