Ice Mummy: The Discovery of a 5,000 Year-Old Man

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Annotation: Describes the discovery by Alpine hikers near the Austrian-Italian border of the frozen body of a man who, after careful examination, was found to be more than 5,000 years old.

Genre: [World history]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #4663947

Format: Paperback

Common Core/STEAM: Common Core

Publisher: Random House

Edition Date: 2009 Release Date: 10/27/98

Pages: 48 pages

ISBN: 0-679-85647-1

ISBN 13: 978-0-679-85647-4

Dewey: 937

LCCN: 97030998

Dimensions: 23 cm.

Subject Heading:
Copper age. Italy. Hauslobjoch Pass. Juvenile literature.
Mummies. Italy. Hauslobjoch Pass. Juvenile literature.
Prehistoric peoples.
Mummies.
Copper age.
Excavations (Archaeology).
Hauslobjoch Pass (Italy). Antiquities. Juvenile literature.
Hauslobjoch Pass (Italy). Antiquities.

Language: English

Reviews:

Horn Book

In 1991, two Alpine hikers found a body partially buried in the snow and ice. After scientific testing, archaeologists confirmed it to be the mummified remains of a five-thousand-year-old human. The Dubowskis' updated easy reader text heightens the drama of this true-life scientific puzzle. The many photographs of the body itself will fascinate readers interested in archaeology and/or gory skeleton pictures.

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Word Count: 2,370

Reading Level: 3.7

Interest Level: 2-5

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 3.7 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 25845 / grade: Middle Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:3.5 / points:2.0 / quiz:Q05673

Lexile: 640L

Guided Reading Level: P

Fountas & Pinnell: P

Reading paragraphs

In 1991, two tourists hiking in the Alps saw something very odd sticking out of the snow. At first it looked like a doll’s head. But it wasn’t. It was a man, frozen in the ice for 5,000 years. Ice Mummy—first published by Random House in 1998—tells the story of this amazing discovery, from the struggle to remove the mummy from his icy grave to the creation of his final resting place: a specially designed refrigeration chamber in his own museum in Bolzano, Italy.

Now updated to include shocking new evidence that the Iceman was murdered—shot with an arrow after hand-to-hand combat with an assailant—Ice Mummy will provide young readers with more chills than ever!

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