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Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past

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In 1991, mountain climbers at the Niederjoch Glacier at the Italian-Austrian border came across something unexpected: a body. It had been a particularly warm summer, and five bodies had already turned up within the area. But something here was once different. The materials found with the body suggested it could be very old, most likely from the 1800s. But radiocarbon dating proved the iceman was once 5,300 years older, from the Copper Age. He was once named Ötzi and he’s the oldest human mummy preserved in ice ever found.
 
In this Sibert Honor Book, James M. Deem takes us on a fascinating and creepy journey to be told about glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice that at the moment are offering up many secrets of the past.

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