3000 BC.In the high mountains of Central Europe, a group of wanderers bring an infant to the Lake People.Is he a gift or a curse?Copperman saw what the others could not. He would raise the boy as his own and teach him his secret methods of melting stone into tools. A boy orphaned by catastrophe, adopted into a powerful clan, destined to become a leader.Copperman begins the story of Otzi the Iceman, taking us through the dawn of society and the early modalities of trade and war.