He was probably gay and it was a hate crime.
He should of worn his shorts looser.
The poor man has been dead for 5300 years. Enough already!
Sure are creating a scenario out of the flimsiest of data. He was sterile and from there we deduce he was an outcast and murdered?
Lots of speculation here. He was shot with an arrow and died in the snow. He was sterile. That's really all they can deduce with any degree of certainty.
That he was driven out or killed because he was sterile is sheer speculation.
They didn't have pockets back then. Also, you don't get sophisticated weapons if your an outcast. Someone else makes them, usually the lady(s) of the lodge. Having the blood of 4 people on his clothes means he was a great warrior. Since he was found alone, he was probably killed raiding another camp, or was jumped for the procedes of his hunt.
Looks like a classic "cold case" file to me.
Are they trying to find next of kin to tell them their father/husband/son is dead?
Hey, the ice man was cold. Haven't these scientists ever heard of shrinkage?
No condoms in his pocket?
Seems to indicate??? Whoa, whoa, whoa... Slow down... How do they know he wasn't a common bandit who robbed and murdered a shaman and then was himself tracked down and killed by angry townscavepeople? Or how do they know he didn't legitimately acquire those items through trade or something? Too many logical leaps of faith for me.
The speculation here is almost as bad as those Discovery channel shows on dinosaurs that try to tell us how they looked, sounded, acted, etc. based on nothing other than bones. And I just love how the scientists speak with such authority and they really have no idea what they are talking about.
(it added, arguing that the new evidence supported a theory that viewed the man as a social outcast.)
They found a DNC card on him.
He could have been an avid rock collector. And a lover of poetry.
Another perfect example of post traumatic stress. This man was my great x 200 grandfather. His inability to produce offspring has created terrible problems for me. Just like to ancestors of slavery, I am desperately in need of therapy to overcome the stress of being born of a childless great x grandfather.
I just can't believe that I sat there and watched the whole thing. I have no life.
He was mugged on his way home from the big game.
Man! If it wasn't embarassing enough back then, they have to announce it to the world again....
"..may have been a childless social outcast.."
Sure, and he may have been the first Maytag repair man. These wacko psychobabble practitioners kill me.