num_pages: 58
description: A 2009 Sibert Honor Book In 1991 mountain climbers on the Niederjoch Glacier on the Italian-Austrian border came across something a body. It had been a very warm summer and five bodies had already turned up in the area. But something here was different. The materials found with the body suggested it might be very old perhaps from the 1800s. But radiocarbon dating proved the iceman was 5300 years older from the Copper Age. He was named tzi and he is the oldest human mummy preserved in ice ever found. In this Sibert Honor Book James M. Deem takes us on a captivating and creepy journey to learn about glaciers hulking masses of moving ice that are now offering up many secrets of the past.
language: English
title: Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
publisher: Clarion Books