This is what it looked like when the married couple Helmut and Erika Simon discovered Ötzi's body protruding from the ice during a hike in the mountains on 19 September 1991.Photo: Helmut Simon. Used with kind permission from Erika Simon
Posted on 11/12/2022 6:54:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Ötzi the ice mummy is unique, but the conditions that preserved his body are not, according to a new study. This means chances are fairly high that more mummies melt out of the ice in the future.
The story starts in September 1991, when a German couple discovered the body of a man protruding from the ice in the Ötztal Alps, on the border between Austria and Italy.
The man turned out to be 5300 years old. His body was exceptionally well preserved.Blood on his shoulderAn arrow and traces of blood were found on the man's left shoulder, as well as a deep cut in his hand. The man, who eventually was known by the name of Ötzi, or the iceman, was thus probably murdered. His equipment was also damaged, most likely in battle, according to archaeologists.
The Austrian archaeologist Konrad Spindler's theory about Ötzi was that he died where he was found, during fall, in a gully in the Tisenjoch-pass. His body then freeze dried, before it was covered in ice due to a dramatic cooling of the climate at just that time. And here the body lay untouched, as if in a time capsule, for more than 5000 years. Because the body was in a gully it was protected from the glacier above, which was in constant movement and would otherwise have crushed any remains of a body. The entire process was a miracle of sorts...
But the story is a little too good to be true, according to a new study published on 7 November in the journal Holocene...
"Our thorough review shows that he melted out of the ice, probably a few times, at least during the first 1500 years," Pilo says.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenorway.no ...
This is what it looked like when the married couple Helmut and Erika Simon discovered Ötzi's body protruding from the ice during a hike in the mountains on 19 September 1991.Photo: Helmut Simon. Used with kind permission from Erika Simon
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Long as they don’t reanimate, it’s fine by me.
He ran, but he just died tired.
He was the original Cube-an.
:-)
Burn coal for science!
Auuuuuugh! Hahahahahah! You win :D
And nobody get any ideas now, savvy?
Uno, does, trays...
It is actually colder now than it was 5,300 years ago but not by much.
OJ said he was going to find the real murderer of Otzi.
Only proves the world was warmer back then...then it cooled....then it warmed...Get the idea???
It was a mob hit. The mafia back then used the area as a dumping ground.
He was so much colder then, he’s warmer than that now.
In addition to suggesting that there could be more ice mummies, Otzi also suggested that people need to stay warm, be kind to each other, and keep an eye on the weather.
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