A study of prehistoric skeletons from the Italian Alps shows that society may have been organized around fathers and that ...

Analysis reveals Copper Age communities were patrilineal, with diverse maternal lineages suggesting women married into male groups.

A reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman, who lived and died in the European Alps some 5,200 years ago. His naturally mummified remains were discovered by German hikers on September 19, 1991.

Scientists in Austria have found 19 living descendants of a prehistoric iceman whose 5,300-year-old body was found frozen in the Alps. Researchers from the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck ...

WASHINGTON -- The Iceman, whose 5,000-year-old frozen mummy was discovered in the Alps in 1991, had last meals including venison and wild goat, a team of Italian scientists reports. The ...