Bronze and Iron AgesLife & Evolution Ötzi the Iceman 3,300 BCENotable A man preserved in Alpine ice carries a copper axe, tattoos and medicinal fungus: a snapshot of Copper Age life. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → First fired clay figures → First pottery → Copper smelting → Ötzi the Iceman Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesBookKonrad SpindlerThe Man in the Ice ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeOtzi the Iceman documentary ↗Editor's pick