Posted on 03/27/2017 7:55:08 PM PDT by Pharmboy
When viewed through the window of the museum’s freezer, where he is kept now, his hands not only appear unusually small, but they also show little sign of hard use, suggesting that Ötzi was no manual laborer. Every modern murder investigation relies heavily on forensic science, but in Ötzi’s case, the techniques have been particularly high tech, involving exotic specialties like archaeobotany and paleometallurgy.
From examining traces of pollen in his digestive tract, scientists were able to place the date of Ötzi’s death at sometime in late spring or early summer. In his last two days, they found, he consumed three distinct meals and walked from an elevation of about 6,500 feet, down to the valley floor and then up into the mountains again, where he was found at the crime site, 10,500 feet up.
On his body was one prominent wound, other than the one from the arrowhead: a deep cut in his right hand between the thumb and forefinger, down to the bone and potentially disabling. By the degree of healing seen on the wound, it was one to two days old.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Was he fooling around with someone else’s woman? Was he shot by a stray arrow from a hunter? He wasn’t robbed...
All the tattoos (61), clearly a gang banger!
He dissed a Neanderthal!
Thank you, very interesting.
Well, we know that he's an ancestor of the Trump family...
Interesting article Pharmboy, thanks for posting!
Probably just a thief getting what he deserved.
Gervin had HUGE hands.
Where was OJ’s whereabouts?
Vanilla Ice
Funny—but I’m sure you know that the Neanderthals had been gone for about 22,000 years when this drama played out.
“Neanderthals had been gone for about 22,000 years when this drama played out.”
My Grandfather was the first of the clan to walk erect!
Don’t believe everything you may read on the internet!
As a trained anthrocookologist, I think we should take a closer look at these three meals he consumed.
He had:
1. Toaster waffles with maple syrup
2. A microwave pizza
3. Three hard-boiled eggs and some canned spaghetti
This tells me that he was probably married to one of my wife’s ancestors.
Butler is also an American politician. He serves as a Commissioner for Cook County, Illinois, having first been elected in 1985. As a member of this 17-member county board, he chairs the Health and Hospitals Committee, and serves as Vice Chair of the Construction Committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Butler
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