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Article: A 4,000-year-old find opens up Bronze Age
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 27, 1991
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High-technology forensic methods should yield a "stunning
array" of details about life in Bronze Age Europe from the body of a
4,000 year-old, leather-clad man found preserved last week in an
Austrian glacier, an expert on the Bronze Age said yesterday.
However, scientists warned, keeping the body from deteriorating
calls for special expertise, as does performing a scientific autopsy
on the stiff, near-frozen tissues and organs of the body.
Several researchers urged archeologists at the University of
Innsbruck, where the corpse was taken after it was found near a
10,000-foot-high Alpine pass last week, to form a team of recognized
experts to carry out the studies.
Excitement flooded ...