The living relative and Cheddar had a most recent common ancestor 10,000 years ago. Iceman was a body found frozen in the Alps in September 1991. He was taken to Innsbruck University, Forensic Medicine Institute in Innsbruck, Austria. Iceman was found on the Italian side of the Austrian-Italian border, only by a few feet. The DNA tests showed that the Iceman's DNA fit with DNA sequences of Europeans.
Iceman is now in a museum in Bolzano, Italy.
The Ice Maiden was a girl only 12-14 years old who was apparently sacrificed by Inca priests 500 years ago. She was a frozen and well preserved mummy, discovered in September 1995 on Mt. Ampato in the Peruvian Andes by anthropologist Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate. Some mtDNA from a heart sample was analyzed using the PCR method and gel electrophoresis. For an article on Ice Maiden, see the January 1997 issue of National Geographic. Beringia linked up Siberia and what is now Alaska.