Chapter 3, Problem 5RE

Ötzi the Iceman In September of 1991 two German tourists found the well-preserved body of a man partially frozen in a glacier in the Ötztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy. See Figure 3.R.1. Through the carbon-dating technique it was found that the body of Ötzi the iceman—as he came to be called—contained 53% as much C-14 as found in a living person. Assume that the iceman was carbon dated in 1991. Use the method illustrated in Example 3 of Section 3.1 to find the approximate date of his death.