What is Ötzi the Iceman?
'''Ötzi the Iceman''',<ref>pronounced {{Audio|De-Oetzi-pronunciation.ogg|ˈœtsi}}</ref> or '''Otzi''', (pronounced as '''Œtsi''', in [[German language|German]]), is a well-preserved natural [[mummy]] of a man who lived about 5,300 years ago.<ref name=snowshoes>{{citation|author=Norman Hammond|title=Iceman was wearing 'earliest snowshoes'|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article516866.ece|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=21 February 2005}}{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The mummy was found in September 1991 by two [[Germany|German]] hikers in the Schnalstal [[glacier]], Ötzti [[Alps]], near Hauslabjoch on the border between [[Austria]] and [[Italy]].<ref>{{citation|author=James Neill|title=Otzi, the 5,300 year old Iceman from the Alps: pictures & information|date=27 October 2004|url=http://www.wilderdom.com/evolution/OtziIcemanAlpsPictures.htm|accessdate=8 March 2007|archive-date=12 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312171223/http://wilderdom.com/evolution/OtziIcemanAlpsPictures.htm|url-status=dead}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://iceman.it/en/node/233|work=South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology|title=The discover of Ötzi|access-date=2010-11-28|archive-date=2010-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126080611/http://iceman.it/en/node/233|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is also known as '''the Iceman''', '''Similaun Man''', '''Frozen Fritz''', and '''Man from Hauslabjoch'''. He is Europe's oldest natural human mummy, and has offered a new picture of Chalcolithic ([[Copper Age]]) Europeans. == Border issues== [[File:Tisenjoch & Hauslabjoch.jpg|thumb|The place where Ötzi was found is marked with a red dot. Austria is on the left side of the image.]] Ötzi was found on a mountain ridge, at the border between Austria and Italy. After the First World War, Austria had to give the southern part of Tyrol to Italy; it is now known as [[Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol]]. At the time, the border was fixed on the [[water