File:OetzitheIceman-flintknife.jpg

Summary
A flint knife with an ash handle and its sheath, found with Ötzi the Iceman, a well-preserved natural mummy of a Chalcolithic (Copper Age) man from about 3300 BC, who was found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. From the website http://www.rolf-tiemann.de/oetzi/oetzi.htm.

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 * The image is not replaceable. Ötzi is now housed at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. For preservation reasons, it is highly unlikely that visitors to the museum will be permitted to take photographs of the body or any associated items that were found with it. Therefore, it is also unlikely that an image which does not rely on the doctrine of fair use is easily obtainable.
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