Ötzi the Iceman Was Making Prosciutto Over 5,000 Years Ago
New research on Ötzi the Iceman, an exquisitely preserved 5,300-year-old human found in a European glacier, shows that he ate a form of dry-cured meat known as “speck”—a fatty, bacon-like snack that’s still found on charcuterie boards today. In other words, prehistoric, Copper Age Europeans were eating a form of prosciutto over 5,000 years ago.…
