Spindler is fiercely defensive of Ötzi, like Frankenstein and his monster, although the relationship is much less emotional than Natalia and her Ice Maiden.Ī bewildering array of more minor characters emerge during the course of the film, my particular favourite being a yodeling mountain dweller, included as a representation of how Ötzi has effected the local population. By far the most important man in Ötzi's life is Konrad Spindler, whose chance identification of the age of the mummy upon its discovery catapulted him to stardom and a life of analysis and scientific monitoring. Once again, as with the Ice Maiden, an impressive set of relationships are on display in the vicinity of the leathery character and his bedraggled belongings. In this second part of the Ice Mummies trilogy, attention turns to Ötzi, the Neolithic man plucked with an ice pick and some not inconsiderable brute force from an Alpine glacier. *The program concludes by raising the question of who has rights to the ancient graves. Another mummy, and other skeletons, are discovered elsewhere. *The body is excavated and taken to Moscow for preservation and facial reconstruction. *They use radiocarbon dating, tree-ring chronology and biological testing to determine the age of the remains and time of death. Archeologists record the Ice Maiden's height, and discover a hole in her skull and peat packed in her body. An afterlife meal, a yak horn vessel and a wooden table are also found outside the coffin. * The Ice Maiden is buried alone, lying as if asleep, in a wood coffin with a headdress and a mirror. * Polosmok and her team discover and unearth a wooden tomb surrounded by the frozen remains of six horses, uncovering a 2,400-year-old woman dubbed the Siberian Ice Maiden. Follows archeologist Natalya Polosmok as she journeys to the Altay Mountains in southern Siberia to search for traces of an ancient people known as the Pazyryk.
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