Iceman – Preservation
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1. Explain why the iceman was so well preserved? ( source one)
It is said that a frozen body will stay preserved over hundreds, even thousand of years.
During the first stage of investigations Austrian archaeologist Konrad Spindler researched the layout which had proved that the icemans body position and placement of weapons were preserved in the same position from when the Iceman had died, it had also been proved that the body was initially covered in a thin layer of snow which had helped complete the freeze drying process before it turned into ice.
The body had been so well preserved because of the depth that the Iceman was actually lying in the ground, which was near the watershed (watershed meaning a line of high land where streams on one side flow into one river or sea and streams on the other side flow into another.) This meant that a glacier would be able to develop above him throughout the next millennia without moving his position down hill. In