He ate and climbed and made things and fought and ultimately was killed by something he never saw coming.

He is not a curiosity.

He is a window.

The clearest single window into the life of a prehistoric European that science has yet found.

And after more than thirty years of research, and despite the extraordinary amount that has already been learned, the window has not yet been fully opened.

Albert Zink, who has spent much of his career studying this single individual, framed it precisely: there will always be new doors opening.

The methods will continue to improve.