• A Stone Age Murder MysteryIn the decade since a 5,300-year-old freeze-dried body was pulled from a melting glacier in Austria, theories have been advanced about the cause of death. He got caught in an autumn storm, fell into a crevasse, and froze to death. No, he was carried up the mountain in spring and served as a human sacrifice. Or was it arthritis or malnutrition that killed him? Finally, the verdict is in. The Tyrolean ice man Ötzi was shot from behind with an arrow.
The jury on the case, doctors at the General Regional Hospital in Bolzano, the Italian town where Ötzi now rests, discovered the flint arrowhead on X rays while searching for fractures; CT scans confirmed the verdict. Lodged less than an inch from Ötzi's left lung, the arrowhead not only paralyzed his left arm but also shattered his shoulder blade, tearing major blood vessels and ...
