Hikers in the Alps took a big step back in time in 1991, when they came upon a man’s frozen, mummified body. Scientists have now tracked the geographic origins of the 5,200-year-old Iceman to an area encompassing a few valleys about 37 miles southeast of where his body turned up.
The findings show that people inhabited central Europe’s Alpine valleys at the time of the Iceman’s demise, say Wolfgang Müller of Australian National University in Canberra and his colleagues.
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