Otzi the Iceman was a human being, who died in the Alps about 5,000 years ago. His body was preserved in a remarkable state, and the science learned from the study of it has been an amazing window into the Bronze Age past. The following is a collection of bibliographic references I've found in English, and I'll keep adding them as I find them.
Barfield L. 1994. The Iceman reviewed. Antiquity 68:10-26.
Dickson JH, Hofbauer W, Porley R, Schmidl A, Kofler W, and Oeggl K. 2009. Six mosses from the Tyrolean Iceman’s alimentary tract and their significance for his ethnobotany and the events of his last days. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18(1):13-22.
Dickson JH, Oeggl K, and Handley LL. 2003. The Iceman Reconsidered. Scientific American 288(5):(electronic version).
Dorfer L, Moser M, Spindler K, Bahr F, Egarter-Vigl E, and Dohr G. 1998. 5200-Year-Old Acupuncture in Central Europe? Science 282(5387):239.
Ermini L, Olivieri C, Rizzi E, Corti G, Bonnal R, Soares P, Luciani S, Marota I, De Bellis G, Richards MB et al. 2008. Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of the Tyrolean Iceman. Current Biology 18(21):1687-1693.
Gaber O, and Künzel K-H. 1998. Man from the Hauslabjoch. Experimental Gerontology 33(7-8):655-660.
Gostner P, and Egarter Vigl E. 2002. INSIGHT: Report of Radiological-Forensic Findings on the Iceman. Journal of Archaeological Science 29(3):323-326.
Gostner P, Pernter P, Bonatti G, Graefen A, and Zink AR. 2011. New radiological insights into the life and death of the Tyrolean Iceman. Journal of Archaeological Science 38(12):3425-3431.
Groenman-van Waateringe W. 2011. The Iceman's last days – the testimony of Ostrya carpinifolia Antiquity 85(328):434-440.
Hoogewerff J, Papesch W, Kralik M, Berner M, Vroon P, Miesbauer H, Gaber O, Künzel K-H, and Kleinjans J. 2001. The Last Domicile of the Iceman from Hauslabjoch: A Geochemical Approach Using Sr, C and O Isotopes and Trace Element Signatures. Journal of Archaeological Science 28(9):983-989.
Kutscher W, and Müller W. 2003. “Isotope language” of the Alpine Iceman investigated with AMS and MS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 204:705-719.
Maderspacher F. 2008. Quick Guide: Ötzi. Current Biology 18(21):R990-R991.
Mayer BX, Reiter C, and Bereuter TL. 1997. Investigation of the triacylglycerol composition of iceman's mummified tissue by high-temperature gas chromatography. Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications 692(1):1-6.
Müller W, Fricke H, Halliday AN, McCulloch MT, and Wartho J-A. 2003. Origin and Migration of the Alpine Iceman. Science 302(5646):862-866.
Oeggl K, Kofler W, Schmidl A, Dickson JH, Egarter-Vigl E, and Gaber O. 2007. The reconstruction of the last itinerary of "Ötzi", the Neolithic Iceman, by pollen analyses from sequentially sampled gut extracts. Quaternary Science Reviews 26(7-8):853-861.
Peintner U, Pöder R, and Pümpel T. 1998. The iceman's fungi. Mycological Research 102(10):1153-1162.
Pernter P, Gostner P, Vigl EE, and Rühli FJ. 2007. Radiologic proof for the Iceman’s cause of death (ca. 5,300 BP). Journal of Archaeological Science 34(11):1784-1786.
Rollo F, Luciani S, Marota I, Olivieri C, and Ermini L. 2007. Persistence and decay of the intestinal microbiota’s DNA in glacier mummies from the Alps. Journal of Archaeological Science 34:1294-1305.
Ruff CB, Holt BM, Sládek V, Berner M, MurphyJr. WA, zur Nedden D, Seidler H, and Recheis W. 2006. Body size, body proportions, and mobility in the Tyrolean “Iceman”. Journal of Human Evolution 51(1):91-101.
Sharp D. 2002. Time to leave Ötzi alone? The Lancet 360(9345):1530.Vanzetti A, Vidale M, Gallinaro M, Frayer DW, and Bondioli L. 2010. The iceman as a burial. Antiquity 84(325):681-692.
Zink A, Graefen A, Oeggl K, Dickson JH, Leitner W, Kaufmann G, Fleckinger A, Gostner P, and Egarter Vigl E. 2011. The Iceman is not a burial: reply to Vanzetti et al. (2010). Antiquity 85(328).
