Numbering over 50 in total, they cover him from head to foot. These weren't produced using a needle, but by making fine cuts in the skin and then rubbing in charcoal. The result was a series of lines and crosses mostly located on parts of the body that are prone to injury or pain, such as the joints and along the back. This has led some researchers to believe that the tattoos marked acupuncture points. The Iceman's final meals have served up a feast of information to scholars.
His stomach contained 30 different types of pollen. His partially digested last meal suggests he ate two hours before his grisly end. It included grains and meat from an ibex, a species of nimble-footed wild goat. All rights reserved. The Iceman has living relatives. He had several health issues. He also had anatomical abnormalities.
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His genetic predisposition shows an increased risk for coronary heart disease , which may have contributed to the development of calcifications hardened plaques around his carotid artery, Live Science previously reported.
Isotopes are ingested in the foods organisms eat and then stored in bones, teeth and other tissues. His last meal included wild meat from ibex and red deer, cereals from einkorn wheat and — strangely enough — poisonous fern, which may have served as a "plastic wrap" to hold his food, or maybe was used as a treatment for his intestinal parasites, Live Science previously reported.
Scattered bits of leather, plant fiber, animal hide, string, his ax and an unfinished bow were found near him when he was first dug out of the ice. In fact, archaeologists were able to reconstruct the iceman's wardrobe , which consisted of a cloak, leggings, a belt, a loincloth, a bearskin cap and even shoes.
The latter were made out of deer hide stretched on a string netting and were insulated with grass. Archaeologists also found a leather pouch containing a tinder fungus, a scraper, a boring tool, a bone awl and a flint flake. Unlike modern tattoos, these were not made with a needle; instead, fine incisions were made on his skin, and the resulting wound was filled with charcoal. Researchers do not think the tattoos were decorative; rather, they might have served a little-understood therapeutic or medical purpose, perhaps a form of primitive acupuncture.
Researchers speculated as to whether he had fallen into a crevasse, died of exposure to the elements or had simply lost his footing on the treacherous ice and tumbled to his death.
The first injury consisted of a flint arrowhead embedded in his left shoulder, a detail that was picked up during an X-ray originally conducted in , as reported by Scientific American. The second injury was a severe head wound, possibly from a blunt object.
At first, researchers debated which injury might have caused his death. But a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface revealed that the arrow was the main cause of death. It's possible that he suffered the head wound at the same time as the arrow wound or afterward, Live Science previously reported. Why he was killed, however, remains a mystery.
Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Innsbruck recovered at least 75 species of bryophytes, non-vascular plants such as mosses and liverworts, that had been preserved in ice with Otzi. Science reveals the menu of Otzi the Iceman's last meal. Researchers believe these non-indigenous plants could have been carried on Otzi's clothing, or perhaps by the dung of large herbivores like the Alpine Ibex, a type of wild goat.
Read More. How, precisely, did they get there? How do they help our understanding of the Iceman? Some of these foreign species were identified as mosses that exist today in the lower Schnalstal valley, in the Italian province of South Tyrol -- suggesting that Otzi had traveled along the valley on his climb up the glacier, to his final resting place.
What a 5,year-old mummy wore to his grave. One species in particular proved significant. Flat Neckera, which grows in low-altitude woodlands, was found on Otzi's clothes and inside his gut. This discovery is "as near proof as it is possible to get that the Iceman climbed from south to north up Schnalstal rather than ascending other adjacent valleys," Dickson said.
These findings corroborate a study that had examined the pollen content in Otzi's gut to reconstruct his route. The study had concluded that in his last 33 hours, Otzi had traveled from low-lying areas with "warmth-loving trees" to high-altitude zones, 3, meters high. Researchers over the years have formed a "disaster" theory for his death: in this scenario, Otzi may have returned to his native village from the Alps, only to be met with some kind of conflict that forced him to flee back to the mountains, where he died.
Here's what we know about Otzi. Otzi lived between and BC. He stood 5 feet 2 inches 1.
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