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ARCHAEOLOGY ANT 2100 QUESTIONS &ANSWERS
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ARCHAEOLOGY ANT 2100 QUESTIONS &ANSWERSThe world's oldest fully preserved human body was found in what year? - Answers-1991
Where was the Iceman found? - Answers-South Tyrol, Italy
The Ice man was the first prehistoric human found with his every day clothes on. True
or False - Answers-True, all previous bodies had been found carefully buried or
sacrificed
The Iceman is also called: - Answers-Similaun Man
What techniques have been used to study the Iceman? - Answers-X-rays, scans, radio
carbon dating
What date do they believe the Iceman is from: - Answers-3300 BC
How do they think the Iceman was preserved? - Answers-He was on the mountain,
probably got tired, and maybe caught in a blizzard. After he died, his body thawed out in
the fall, and then became encased in ice in the winter. Because he was sort of in a hole,
the body was protected from the glaciers that moved 5000 years later. Finally, a storm
from the sahara desert put a layer of dust on the ice, the dust absorbed the sunlight and
melted the ice.
What did ice man look like? skin color, age, height and weight? Hair? - Answers-Dark
skinned, late 40's, 5'2" and 120 pounds. Brown hair, possibly a beard, ornamental stone
in his ear lobe
What did they learn about the ice man? What did he eat? Why were his lungs black? -
Answers-He had blackened lungs from the smoke from open fires. Strict vegetarian for
the last few months of his life but he ate meat at some point.
Why might Ice man have had tattoo? - Answers-Tattoos on spine, calf, knee and ankle.
They may have been therapeutic to relieve his arthritis.
What did his fingernail analysis reveal? - Answers-That he did manual labor and that he
may have had a serious illness.
What killed the iceman? - Answers-He was either struck on the head or fell because
they found an arrowhead in his shoulder, cuts on his hands and wrists, and his ribs.
Isotopes in the Iceman's teeth and bones reveal what? - Answers-That he spent his
whole life within 37 miles of where he was found.
Look at pictures of the Ice man's clothing on handout - Answers-
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