‘The Glacier Mummy. Discovering the Neolithic Age with Ötzi’ is packed with visual impressions and precise information.
Around 400 superb colour photographs with short, clear descriptions supply the answers to a variety of interesting questions. How exactly was Ötzi discovered and how was his body extracted from the ice? What do the high-tech machines, which preserve and watch over Ötzi round the clock, actually look like? Why has Ötzi become the most closely examined patient of all time? How accurate and deadly were his weapons? What is so unique about the Iceman?
These and many more questions are answered in this young person’s guide to the sensational archaeological discovery which has provided an opportunity to peer into the world as it was over 5,000 years ago, and attracted countless visitors from all over the world to the South Tyrol.

The conservation of the world famous glacier mummy: a tightrope walk between preservation requirements and museum presentation.
The book This book describes the complex method of preservation that has al-lowed the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano to put the Iceman on display since 1998.
Ice kept the body intact for 5,300 years. After that it was up to technology to find a way to perform this critical task. Researchers not only had to create an envi-ronment that imitated natural conditions as closely as possible, but at the same time also had to fulfil the mummy’s strong communicative potential, thereby guaranteeing that it could be put on museum display without neglecting funda-mental aspects such as the safety and reliability of the preservation system.
After decades of tests, constant improvements and thorough physical and bio-chemical studies, the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology’s preservation tech-nique has achieved unique results, unparalleled in the world.
The editor Marco Samadelli was born in Bolzano in 1972. After gaining a di-ploma in electronics he pursued one of his great passions by specialising in video and photographic techniques. In 1997 he won a competitive examination for the position of photographer at the Archaeological Finds Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and so entered the world of archaeology. He has also studied industrial automation, broadening his knowledge into the fields of physics and cryopreservation. Today he is employed by the South Tyrol Museum of Archae-ology as a specialist in preservation techniques for the Iceman display.