Time to ban flint-tipped arrows. ;~))
Seriously. I'm not much of a bleeding heart, but they have studied this poor guy up one side and down the other, and they still have him on display in some museum somewhere.
IMHO, we have learned all we can and it's time to give him a proper burial and let him rest in peace. I feel the same about all the old Egyptian and Inca mummies collecting dust in museums around the world. Yes, they may have had something to tell us, but it reaches a point where they simply become a Ripleys kind of spectacle.
Even though they are ancient, they were once living, breathing, intelligent humans and one of God's special creations. Their remains deserve to be treated with the kind of dignity we would accord to the recently departed and not as some curiosity or tourist attraction.
Just my humble opinion.
....I agree Ditto....there have been several specials on TV about this and it looks like they’ve investigated thoroughly....maybe it’s time to lay the matter to rest.
“...he was shot to death with a flint-tipped arrow
Time to ban flint-tipped arrows. ;~))”
Agree with your further comments, but...
maybe he shouldn’t have been wearing skins during hunting season?
Last thing I remember is the freezing cold
Water reaching up just to swallow me whole
Ice in the rigging and howling wind
Shock to my body as we tumbled in
Then my brothers and the others are lost at sea
I alone am returned to tell thee
Hidden in ice for a century
To walk the world again
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
Next words that were spoken to me
Nurse asked me what my name might be
She was all in white at the foot of my bed
I said angel of mercy Im alive or am I dead
My name is william james mcphee
I was born in 1843
Raised in liverpool by the sea
But that aint who I am
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
It took a lot of money to start my heart
To peg my leg and to buy my eye
The newspapers call me the state of the art
And the children, when they see me, cry
I thought it would be nice just to visit my grave
See what kind of tombstone I might have
I saw my wife and my daughter and it seemed so strange
Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age
See here, when I die make sure Im gone
Dont leave em nothing to work on
You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand
And you can wave goodbye to the frozen man
I know what it means to freeze to death
To lose a little life with every breath
To say goodbye to life on earth
To come around again
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
-James Taylor
When it's a crime to have flint-tipped arrows, only criminals will have flint-tipped arrows...
We went to the museum last month and saw him, and yeah, I would have to probably agree. The one interesting thing, I guess is how his body was preserved, but I guess a picture could do that. The clothes and everything were interesting, but it just feels kind-of morbid. I do feel the same when I see mummies, too.