New discovery from the team of researchers of Archeometallurgy of the University of Padua. From the research published on "Plos One", it emerges that the origin of the Similaun Man, nicknamed Ötzi, originates from the area of southern Tuscany. Until today it was believed that the production and circulation of copper in the Alpine area in the 4th millennium BC originated only from Central European and Balkan deposits.

Thanks to the research team led by Gilberto Artioli of the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua, the maps of socio-economic exchanges between the eneolithic cultures of central Italy and the north of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines can be extended to the populations that occupy the eastern alpine arch where lived of the man who came from the ice.