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Nature 407, 550 (5 October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35036727
Frozen body offers chance to travel back in time
Quirin Schiermeier & Katrin Stehle
Six European research groups are eagerly awaiting new samples from the bones, teeth and intestine of Ötzi, the Stone Age man whose body was defrosted last week.Ötzi's frozen body, over 5,000 years old, was found in 1991 in the Italian Alps close to the Austrian border.
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