The fascinating story of a neolithic man and his tattoos. What did they represent? To know, we need to dig deeper into the ancient past, to a time long before cars, smartphones and Eurovision Song Contests.

Contents:
00:00-01:18 The rights to Ötzi´s body - the Austria-Italian dispute
01:18-02:28 How many tattoos had Ötzi and what was their purpuse?
02:28-03:33 Theories and explanations: Healing purposes
03:33-04:07 Theories and explanations: Identity and culture
04:07-04:32 Theories and explanations: Spirituality and religion
04:32-5:25 A new theory: The mid-life crisis.

High up in the Ötztal Alps a man took his last breath, fatally wounded. He would not be discovered until 5300 years later. The discovery of Ötzi the Iceman is one of the great archeological finds of the 20th century. But how did he made fire? He carried flint and tinder fungus, but no pyrite. Why? Can we reveal Ötzis neolithic fire making secret?

Ötzi the iceman is the holy grail of glacial archaeology, nothing less. The discovery of the 5300-year-old mummified body and the associated artefacts created a media frenzy and great public interest. Today, 250000 people visit the Ötzi Museum in Bolzano each year to get a glimpse of Ötzi and the exhibited artefacts. A wealth of scientific papers, popular books and documentaries have been published.

Ötzi was discovered in 1991 in a gully at the Tisenjoch pass close to the Italian/Austrian border. The original interpretation by the Innsbruck-based archaeologist Konrad Spindler was that Ötzi froze to death in the gully. He was quickly covered by a glacier and remained encased in ice until he melted out in 1991 ([ Ссылка ]).

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