The Iceman and his Natural Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Radiocarbon dating of equipment from the Iceman

   • W. Kutschera, R. Golser, A. Priller, W. Rom, P. Steier, E. Wild et al.

   Pages 1-9

3. The Iceman’s environment

   • S. Bortenschlager

   Pages 11-24

4. The amount of CO2 in the air breathed by the Iceman

   • Hilary H. Birks

   Pages 25-27

5. Dendrological analyses of artefacts and other remains

   • K. Oeggl, W. Schoch

   Pages 29-61

6. The bow of the Tyrolean Iceman: A dendrological investigation by computed tomography

   • W. Oberhuber, R. Knapp

   Pages 63-67

7. Analysis of the bast used by the Iceman as binding material

   • K. Pfeifer, K. Oeggl

   Pages 69-76

8. Bryology and the Iceman: Chorology, Ecology and Ethnobotany of the Mosses Neckera complanata Hedw. and N. crispa Hedw.

   • James H. Dickson

   Pages 77-87

9. The diet of the Iceman

   • K. Oeggl

   Pages 89-115

10. Diatoms from the colon of the Iceman

    • E. Rott

    Pages 117-125

11. Parasitological examination of the Iceman

    • H. Aspöck, H. Auer, O. Picher, W. Platzer

    Pages 127-136

12. Vivianite from the Iceman of the Tisenjoch (Tyrol, Austria): Mineralogical-chemical data

    • R. Tessadri

    Pages 137-141

13. Ethnomycological remarks on the Iceman’s fungi

    • U. Peintner, R. Pöder

    Pages 143-150

14. Contribution to insect remains from the accompanying equipment of the Iceman

    • W. Schedl

    Pages 151-155

15. Compilation of DNA sequences from the Iceman’s grass clothing

    • S. Antonini, S. Luciani, I. Marota, M. Ubaldi, F. Rollo

    Pages 157-162

16. Epilogue: The search for explanations and future developments

    • K. Oeggl, J. H. Dickson, S. Bortenschlager

    Pages 163-166

17. Back Matter

    Pages 167-172

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Before the discovery of the "Man in the Ice" in temporal context. On the other hand the reconstruc­ tion of the Iceman's life-style as derived from data September 1991, little was known about the Neolithic obtained from the site has to be correlated with inde­ period in the Central Alps. Suddenly and without precedent, here was the very well preserved corpse of pendent data sets. For that purpose pollen analysis was a man who had lived more than 5,000 years ago with his performed on peat-bogs in the vicinity of the find and clothing and equipment almost intact. The discovery further afield to obtain precise data on the vegetation was not just deservedly a world-wide sensation but a cover and climate in the Neolithic. Pollen analysis was unique opportunity for the scientific community to in­ performed for a vertical transect extending from the vestigate the life and death of a human from such very timber line almost up to the nival zone. The results of ancient times. It opened up wholly new horizons in the analyses reveal changes to the vegetation patterns prehistoric research, and with the help of a full range caused by pastoral farming long before the time of the of modern research techniques an attempt was made Iceman.

• Dendrology
• Polle
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• anthropology
• botanics
• carbon
• development
• ecology
• environment
• fungi
• mumies
• mummies
• palaeobotany
• vegetation
• wood

"... a very valuable contribution ... The book is a very high-quality production, commensurate with the scientific importance of the subject. The quality of the photographs, many in colour, is excellent ...” The Holocene 4/2001, 11/507-510

• Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

  Sigmar Bortenschlager, Klaus Oeggl

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