The Man from Similaun: an anthropological and palethnological synthesis.

The discovery of the Man from Similaun is one of the mam archaeological eve nts of the century. The paper gives a palethnological and anthropological s ynthesis as well as the history and the peculiar circumstances of the disco very. Furthermore it gives a analysis of the archaelogical, palaeontologica l and botanic remains useful to the definition of the life, environment, cu ltural background and health conditions of the mummy. The problem of the pr eservation of the remains and of the mummy iself so as the description of t he Museum of Bolzano to which the mummy came back a after a long stay in In nsbruck are exposed.