Researchers have determined that previous findings concerning the Iceman's ancestry were likely to be wrong.
Scientists have succeeded in identifying red blood cells inside a man frozen in ice for over 5,000 years.
Curiosity's chief scientist John Grotzinger has described the find as 'one for the history books'.
New findings have shown that Otzi was very much like other Stone Age farmers found throughout Europe.
Otzi the iceman has been the subject of research and study since his discovery in a glacier in 1991.