ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 illustrates how paleoethnobotany contributes to understanding an individual’s relationship to the natural world through the example of Ötzi, a late Neolithic man preserved by glacier ice in the Alps. The case study focuses on the plant materials associated with Ötzi and what they tell us about his daily life, cultural affiliation, final journey, and death, as well as studies of the find site and region, and what they tell us about the environment and human relationships to it during the Late Neolithic.
