The Iceman Research Paper

The life and death of the Iceman is one of histories greatest and perhaps most interesting mysteries. The area the body was found in, the items he was carrying and the position the corpse was found in is the subject of much speculation surrounding the cause of his death.
We can only uncover so much about the iceman as technology will allow us, but thanks to recent advancements we have been able to uncover more and more about the iceman's life and the moments leading up to his death.
At first, scientists imagined that the iceman was caught in a heavy snowstorm, fell asleep and froze to death. Konrad Spindler theorised and published in this 1995 book titled 'The Man in the Ice', that the iceman was a Sheppard from a nearby Neolithic village that had escaped from a barbaric raid. Spindlers theories were biased off the Iceman's age, strong physique, clothing and equipment, and place of death which is nearby a popular route that Sheppard's would follow for their flocks to graze.
The excellent preservation of this pollen meant that the iceman had ingested it just before he died. The flowers of the hop hornbeam tree flower between March and June meaning that the iceman had died in late spring/ early summer.
More evidence that the iceman had not frozen to death became apparent in June 2001 when a group of scientists in Bolzano x-rayed the body and discovered an arrowhead buried in his left shoulder. Later in 2007 research done by scientists from the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology revealed that the arrow head had severed the subclavian artery and it was possible that the iceman had bled to death. Some of the most exciting news about the iceman's death came from a group of Australian