Tanaka, Shelley.

Discovering the Iceman : what was it like to find a 5,300-year-old mummy? / by Shelley Tanaka ; illustrations by Laurie McGaw. - New York, N.Y. : Hyperion Books For Children, c1996. - 48 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 24 x 29 cm.

"I was there book." "A Hyperion/Madison Press book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 48).

Recounts the discovery and examination of a 5,300-year-old man whose remains were found by hikers in the Alps in 1991 and explores how this discovery provides clues about the everyday life of our ancestors.

ISBN: 0786802847 0590249517 (Scholastic pbk.)

LCCN: 96028986 /AC

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Copper age--Juvenile literature.--Italy--Trentino-Alto Adige
Mummies--Juvenile literature.--Italy--Trentino-Alto Adige
Prehistoric peoples--Juvenile literature.
Prehistoric peoples.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Trentino-Alto Adige (Italy)--Antiquities--Juvenile literature.

LC Class. No.: GN778.22.I8 / T36 1996

Dewey Class. No.: 937/.3