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Science 16 October 1992:
Vol. 258. no. 5081, pp. 455 - 457
DOI: 10.1126/science.1411539
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Science, Vol 258, Issue 5081, 455-457
Copyright © 1992 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Some anthropological aspects of the prehistoric Tyrolean ice man

H Seidler, W Bernhard, M Teschler-Nicola, W Platzer, D zur Nedden, R Henn, A Oberhauser, and T Sjovold

Institut fur Humanbiologie, Universitat Wien, Austria.

The corpse of a Late Neolithic individual found in a glacier in Oetztal is unusual because of the intact nature of all body parts that resulted from the characteristics of its mummification process and its protected geographical position with regard to glacier flow. Anthropological data indicate that the man was 25 to 40 years old, was between 156 and 160 centimeters in stature, had a cranial capacity of between 1500 and 1560 cubic centimeters, and likely died of exhaustion.


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