PALEOFORENSICS:
Ice Man Warms Up for European Scientists
Richard Stone
After spending about 45 million hours in a deep freeze, Italy's "Ice Man" was thawed for 4 hours earlier this week in an Italian museum to allow scientists to snip out bits of bone, teeth, skin, and fat. Scientists hope that turning up the heat on the famous emissary from Neolithic Europe could help solve such lingering puzzles as who his kin were and what caused his death.