Unit 1

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

In September ___________, two German tourists were on holiday in the Alps. One day, they were walking ________ a path, when they saw ______________ in the ice. They stopped and looked. It was ___________ of a body. They thought it was a climber, but they were __________________. They weren´t looking at the _________ of a modern climber. 

This body was over _______________years old. They were looking at a man from the Stone Age. Who was he? What was he doing in the mountains? How did he die? Did he ________or did somebody ___________ him?

 Archaelogists from all over the world ___________to study the Iceman. Ötzi, as the archaelogists called him, lived between _________________BC and 3100 BC – over ____________ years before the Egyptians __________ the Pyramids. He came from northern Italy and he was about ___________ years old. That was old in the Stone Age, because people didn´t ___________ very long then. He was about ___________ m tall, had blue eyes, and long, dark brown hair. We know __________he was a farmer, because scientists found __________ of corn in his clothes. He was probably taking his sheep and ____________ into the mountains when he ____________. 

Ötzi changed our ________ about the Stone Age. Before Ötz, archaelogists thought that copper didn´t __________ in Europe _______ 2000 BC. ___________, Ötzi was carrying a copper axe ____________ years ______________. He was also carrying a bow and ____________, a knife and some wooden ___________. He was wearing _________clothes, with a waterproof cloak and _____________boots. These things ___________ that Stone Age people were very _______________.