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The discovery of Otzi the Ice-Man in 1991 was a global sensation, his 5200 year old body exceptionally well-preserved through freezing within glacier ice. This detailed study presents a new analysis of what this remarkable survival can tell us about Otzis life, death, and social position, as well as providing a more general introduction to the processes involved in mummification in glacial ice. New evidence allows a more thorough reconstruction of Otzis diet, and Dickson also reviews the many theories which have emerged as to what Otzi was doing so high in the Alps, whether he died there or was moved, whether he was murdered or sacrificed, and whether he was deliberately buried.