Otzi The Iceman
Roughly 5,000 years ago, Ötzi, the Iceman, was murdered on the Ötztal Alps due to stealing a copper axe from another civilization close to his. Recently, scientists have found key evidence inside and outside Ötzi’s body supporting this claim. Initially scientists thought he had frozen to death in the harsh weather; however, in 2001 an X-ray examination revealed an arrowhead was lodged in Ötzi’s left shoulder, that eventually lead to his demise. One of the four individuals who fought Ötzi pulled the arrow shaft out of his shoulder to avoid suspicion. The position of the arrowhead in his left shoulder, and the spot relative to where he died baffled the scientists. An experienced hunter had to have taken the shot based on elevation
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Before being ambushed by his attackers on the mountainside, Ötzi’s stomach contained signs of sloes, bread, and deer meat from the meal he ate not too long ago. What caught scientists off guard, was the food wrapped in mosses inside of the Iceman’s stomach. Ötzi unintentionally swallowed the mosses on his food not knowing that they were there. Even for a prehistoric man, mosses weren’t very nutritious nor tasty; which shows signs of Ötzi being in a rush from people. Ötzi was well equipped for an animal attack so it would rule out that possibility. Inside of the Iceman’s colon, Dr. Dieter Zur Nedden, the radiologist who examined Ötzi’s colon, noticed something very peculiar. A slight bulge of food contaminated with pollen found from the higher portion of the mountain to the lower portion of the mountain was discovered and Dr. Eguard Egarter Vigl extracted the thirty different pollen samples. Dr. Eduard Egarter Vigl recalled the instructions Dr. Nedden gave to him in order to extract the pollen carefully, “Here is the fracture, it shouldn’t be a problem. Open the chest here and take out the piece. It should only take 20 minutes.” (Dr. Dieter Zur Nedden and Dr. Eduard Egarter Vigl, Iceman Testimony, pg. 3). Trace amounts of pollen found from higher elevations to lower elevations is consistent with traveling from one area to another frequently in the past eight
Before being ambushed by his attackers on the mountainside, Ötzi’s stomach contained signs of sloes, bread, and deer meat from the meal he ate not too long ago. What caught scientists off guard, was the food wrapped in mosses inside of the Iceman’s stomach. Ötzi unintentionally swallowed the mosses on his food not knowing that they were there. Even for a prehistoric man, mosses weren’t very nutritious nor tasty; which shows signs of Ötzi being in a rush from people. Ötzi was well equipped for an animal attack so it would rule out that possibility. Inside of the Iceman’s colon, Dr. Dieter Zur Nedden, the radiologist who examined Ötzi’s colon, noticed something very peculiar. A slight bulge of food contaminated with pollen found from the higher portion of the mountain to the lower portion of the mountain was discovered and Dr. Eguard Egarter Vigl extracted the thirty different pollen samples. Dr. Eduard Egarter Vigl recalled the instructions Dr. Nedden gave to him in order to extract the pollen carefully, “Here is the fracture, it shouldn’t be a problem. Open the chest here and take out the piece. It should only take 20 minutes.” (Dr. Dieter Zur Nedden and Dr. Eduard Egarter Vigl, Iceman Testimony, pg. 3). Trace amounts of pollen found from higher elevations to lower elevations is consistent with traveling from one area to another frequently in the past eight