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A man's bones with 16th-century weapons and coins in a glacier near Zermatt, Switzerland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter Lehner  and
Annemarie Julen
Peter Lehner
Affiliation:
Speerstrasse 39, CH-8805 Richterswil, Switzerland
Annemarie Julen
Affiliation:
Chalet Bergkristall, CH-3920 Zermatt, Switzerland
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Late in the 16th century, a man fell into the glacier crossing a high Alpine pass between Switzerland and Italy. The ice has released him these last years.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 247 , June 1991 , pp. 269 - 273
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1991

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