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Published online 2 January 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001228-7
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The Iceman ate-eth meat
Archaeologists are divided over whether a prehistoric man had the salad or the steak.
A food fight is raging in the field of archaeology. The food in question last saw the light of day 5,300 years ago, just before being swallowed by a man who then hiked into the ötztal Alps, died, and was sealed within a glacier for millennia.
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