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Posted on Friday, 24 June, 2011 | 18 comments| News tip by: Persia
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Otzi the iceman has been the subject of research and study since his discovery in a glacier in 1991.
The mystery of what he would have last eaten before his untimely demise has finally been answered, scientists have been able to determine the location of his stomach and believe his last meal would have been a helping of Alpine ibex that he'd downed as little as 30 minutes before he died.
"In a presentation at the Seventh World Congress on Mummy Studies, researchers from the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman revealed that they had finally located the iceman known as Otzi’s stomach and determined his last meal."
It certainly seems like he wasn't the most popular copper age man in the world. Very interesting though. I wonder what he did to cause so much seeming hostility? Sounds like he was chased down then shot [with an arrow] and bludgeoned to death. I do not think that Otzi was bludgeoned when he was killed. I believe the first theory was that he died due to exposure/hypothermia. After several years they found the arrowhead in a location that struck an artery causing him to bleed to death. Otzi was found with a very handsome copper axe and the experts determined that with a weapon this fine he was l... [More]
Otzi the Iceman, a well-preserved natural mummy of a Chalcolithic (Copper Age) man from about 3300 BC, who was found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. http://www.physorg.c...-otzi-meal.html This is and always will be a unique and amazing story. A frozen man has spoke volumes to us in a way.
Simply amazing. I gotta dig up some more on his genome, that should be interesting. I would think that killing the Shaman of a food/resource competitive tribe might be quite a coup. Wonder how he would have been caught out alone? Vision quest? Well, however it happened I bet it was quite a story. On the other hand, stealing food, when it was scarce or hard to come by would certainly get your ass majorly kicked, especially in someone else's hunting territory. Or stealing someone's wife, etc, might inspire your own tribe to do you in, when you were supposed to be the "honorable" one. Ah, silly s... [More]
How do you plan on doing that? Are you a scientist? If so, cool! No, I just meant digging around on the internet, I'm sure it's probably published. I've just always loved weird archeology and have tons of wasted college time in classes unrelated to my field :-) Course, that was back in the Cretaceous period.
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