Anthropologists Have Mapped All 61 Tattoos On Ötzi The Iceman

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[BenLurkin]

By using an innovative non-invasive photographic technique, European researchers have managed to locate and map the extensive set of tattoos on the exquisitely preserved remains of Ötzi the Iceman. Remarkably, they even found a previously unknown tattoo on his ribcage.

Ötzi's frozen remains were discovered by two German tourists in the Ötzal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy in 1991. He lived around 3,300 BCE and represents Europe's oldest natural human mummy. Because he was so well preserved in ice, he has provided anthropologists with a slew of information about Copper Age (or Chalcolithic) humans.

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It's worth noting that Ötzi's tattoos were not applied by needles, but by making incisions into which charcoal was rubbed.

[BenLurkin]

What? You don’t want to paw over a corpse looking for tattoos?

[dware]

Not trying to offend but that is how I feel.

Are you a closet liberal? They are generally the ones who make judgements based on feeeeeeelings...BTW, your decision to mock based on tats is pretty ignorant. Not to offend, but that's fact, Jack.

[Boundless]

re: ... the ones on the lower back had to be applied by someone else. What that means I don’t know exactly but I think it might indicate it’s a known and shared practice of the tribe.

Humans are a tribal species. We, alas, spontaneously form tribes. One might call this the “Lord of the Flies” effect. This helped make us the dominate large mammals on the planet, but came with a lot of destructive baggage.

When we can’t differentiate from the neighboring tribes by natural morphology (e.g. race), we create artificial differentiation, usually body mods, of which tats are one.

[BenLurkin]

“closet liberal”

That’s a little harsh don’t you think?

[PhiloBedo]

+1

[Beowulf9]

I’m very conservative, believing in the right to express my opinion.

A liberal would ban that.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

• Scan finds new tattoos on 5300-year-old Iceman

[Nea Wood]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way. I keep waiting for the fad to end, but it looks like it’s here to stay.

[Gamecock]

Didi he have little horns too?

[Red Badger]

Bar codes..............

[red-dawg]

♪♪♪ I love to sing-a,
About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a ...♪♪♪

[dware]

believing in the right to express my opinion

An opinion based on feeeeelings....

[dware]

That’s a little harsh don’t you think?

A little harsh woulda been calling him an out liberal. :) Sorry, but I'm tired of the BS. Time to start calling things for what they are. Too old now to pussy foot around.

[SunkenCiv]

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• Anthropologists Have Mapped All 61 Tattoos On Ötzi The Iceman [2015]
• Scan finds new tattoos on 5300-year-old Iceman [2015]
• Ötzi's non-human DNA: Opportunistic pathogen discovered in Iceman tissue biopsy [2014]
• Chalcolithic catastrophe on the Mondsee [2014]
• Positioning the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) Hunted by the Tyrolean Iceman... [2014]
• Scientists say Ötzi the Iceman has living relatives, 5,300 years later [2013]
• Living Relatives Of Iceman Mummy Found (Ötzi, 5,300 Years Old) [2013]
• Otzi's Neandertal ancestry [2013]
• Iceman Mummy Finds His Closest Relatives [2012]
• Otzi the Iceman: scientists find 5,000-year-old blood sample [2012]
• Ötzi the ice mummy's secrets found in DNA [2012]
• Ice Mummy May Have Smashed Eye in Fall [2011]
• Iceman Autopsy [2011]
• Iceman's 'Girlfriend' Found [ Lady of Introd ] [2011]
• Iceman's Stomach Sampled --- Filled With Goat Meat [2011]
• Scientists finally determine iceman Otzi's last meal [Ice Man] [2011]
• The Iceman's Last Meal [2011]
• Artists Recreate the Face Otzi, a 5,300-Year-Old Iceman Mummy [2011]
• Iceman Oetzi gets a new face for 20th anniversary [2011]
• Oetzi, the Iceman, was ceremonially buried: archaeologist [2010]
• Otzi's secrets about to be revealed [2010]
• Nanostructure of 5,000-year-old mummy skin reveals insight into mummification process [Oetzi] [2010]
• Ötzi the iceman: Up close and personal [2009]
• Pile village fortification found on Lake Biel [3,200 BC] [2009]
• Doctors prove that the Iceman was shot to death in the Alps [ Oetzi ] [2009]
• Iceman Oetzi's Last Supper [2008]
• Scientists believe 5,300-year-old mummified 'ice man' belonged to unknown branch of human fam. tree [2008]
• Ancient iceman probably has no modern relatives [2008]
• Prehistoric Disaster: An Alpine Pompeii from the Stone Age [2008]
• Archaeologists find bones from prehistoric war in Germany [2008]
• Iceman's DNA Linked To Coastal Aboriginals (Canada) [2008]
• Saddam Hussein's Ally Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri 'Captured' In Iraq [2008]
• Alpine Guardians Try To Put Treasures On Ice [2008]
• Scientists Tantalize With 'Iceman' Findings (Canada) [2008]
• Researcher's Say Italy's 5,000-Year-Old Iceman Died From Head Trauma, Not Arrow (Oetzi) [2007]
• Scientists say 'Iceman' died from arrow [2007]
• Tattoos - The Ancient And Mysterious History [2007]
• An ancient art becomes mainstream: The acceptance of tattoo art helps remove former stigma [2006]
• Alpine ice man may have been childless outcast [2006]
• Infertility link in iceman's DNA [2006]
• Death Renews Iceman 'Curse' Claim (Oetzi) [2005]
• 'Iceman' (Oetzi) Might Be Contaminated [2005]
• Theory: Iceman Oetzi Wore High-Tech Shoes [2005]
• Alpine Iceman (Oetzi) Reveals Stone Age Secrets [2005]
• 'Iceman' discoverer joins his find in Alpine grave [2004]
• Finder of Tyrol "Iceman" missing in Alps [2004]
• After 5,000 Years, the Mystery Of Fritz Just Won't End [2004]
• Iceman (Oetzi) Discoverer Claims Reward [2003]
• Was Ancient Alpine "Iceman" Killed in Battle? [2003]
• Iceman's bones lead scientists to his home turf [2003]
• Iceman Found in Italy Didn't Wander Far [2003]
• Italy's 5,000-Year-Old Iceman Put Up a Fight [DNA of 4 foes, venison and ibex his final meal] [2003]
• DNA reveals how the Italian Iceman went down fighting [2003]
• 'Iceman' was murdered, science sleuths say [2003]
• Ice Man Cometh - From Italy (Oetzi) [2003]
• Secrets Of A Stone Age Rambo (Otzi, The Iceman) [2003]
• Dozens of women want Bronze Age hunter's babies [2003]

[goodwithagun]

I’m an acupuncture fan. I don’t gave tattoos so I can’t compare them, but I can type with honesty that I very rarely feel the needles. I’ve heard tattooing is quite the opposite.

[left that other site]

ha Ha Ha!

[Moonman62]

Bar codes..............

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My thought, too. They are simple like tally marks. I wonder if they are code for some type of information.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Some one on another web page said the tats are acupuncture points.

[knarf]

Thanx, but (though perhaps I should have explained),
IF accupuncture was practiced back then
AND it was a mobile society
THEN it might be reasonable to mark the places that had been successful in the past for a doctor unfamiliar with his patient

Do the location of those (look like bar codes, eh?) tats indicate ANYthing ... perhaps ?

[knarf]

13 seconds too late ... thanx
That was what I was thinking