Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past

by James M. Deem

Book Overview

A 2009 Sibert Honor Book

In 1991, mountain climbers on the Niederjoch Glacier on the Italian-Austrian border came across something unexpected: a body. It had been a very warm summer, and five bodies had already turned up in the area. But something here was different. The materials found with the body suggested it might be very old, perhaps from the 1800s. But radiocarbon dating proved the iceman was 5,300 years older, from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061880045X
• ISBN13: 9780618800452
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7