A stone arrowhead found with the ice mummy Ötzi has a broken tip and other signs of wear. Credit: U. Wierer et al./PLoS ONE
A stone arrowhead found with the ice mummy Ötzi has a broken tip and other signs of wear. Credit: U. Wierer et al./PLoS ONE
Maybe he just wasn’t good a making arrowheads.................
Still capable of administering a mortal wound.
Interesting.
[[Now, an analysis suggests that many of his stone tools were old and worn, hinting at the travails of the iceman’s final hours.]]
Oh for goodness sake- could be he was just lazy and didn’t want to put the effort into making newer sharper instruments
I’ve always thought ‘Outzi’ was a criminal.
He was shot in the back with and arrow, and had a stab wound on his hand.
Had he been set upon by criminal, they would have pursued him to get whatever he had that they wanted.
If he had been wounded in the act of trying to pilfer crop or livestock by a homeowner or villager they would have merely shot at him with arrows until he was gone, without pursuit........
Well, he was crossing a border with insufficient means to provide for his own welfare, impoverished, poorly dressed, ill-equipped,
with all the ear-marks of a common criminal,
and the government has treated him like a hero and spent millions on him ever since.
I don’t know who he was but I’m pretty sure he’s dead,
And I sure know how he’s expected to vote!
The biggest difference between Otzi and all of us is that he didn’t have a smart phone. His behavior was human and no doubt had a personality that we would recognize immediately. Some of his neighbors were satisfied to live their lives inside the village, rarely leaving the comfort and security that it offered. Others were loners and made their living hunting, gathering, and making long distance trading ventures. Those people may not have been liked by the villagers and may have been distrusted. I suspect that such dust ups experienced by Otzi wasn’t that rare. The villages needed people like Otzi to bring exotic goods, information of what was going on on the other side of the mountain, and bring new technology. Did he commit a transgression? Perhaps.
Thanks for posting! I would have missed this.
