Posted on 10/18/2011 10:34:58 AM PDT by FritzG
The National Geographic has info, a teaser for an October 26 Nova special:
The genetic results add both information and intrigue. From his genes, we now know that the Iceman had brown hair and brown eyes and that he was probably lactose intolerant and thus could not digest milksomewhat ironic, given theories that he was a shepherd. Not surprisingly, he is more related to people living in southern Europe today than to those in North Africa or the Middle East, with close connections to geographically isolated modern populations in Sardinia, Sicily, and the Iberian Peninsula. The DNA analysis also revealed several genetic variants that placed the Iceman at high risk for hardening of the arteries. ("If he hadn't been shot," Zink remarked, "he probably would have died of a heart attack or stroke in ten years.") Perhaps most surprising, researchers found the genetic footprint of bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi in his DNAmaking the Iceman the earliest known human infected by the bug that causes Lyme disease.It seems that my prediction that the Iceman will turn out to be Mediterranean in terms of his autosomal genetic components was right!
Tyrolean Iceman week is upon us! (and some migrationist thoughts)
Otzi, ping.
-lactose intolerant-
Maybe he was Chinese?
Let the BS tsunami begin!! Probably much the same as “global warming”. How else will they get “grant” money? All hogwash and conjecture. Bah!!! Humbug!!!
I didn’t know this controversy existed, but put me down as a migrationist.
People have been moving around in the migrationist way for as long as we have records. Why in the world should we think people before we had records behaved differently?
Actually, I can answer my own question.
Most archaeologists and anthropologists are culturally and politically liberal.
They want desperately to believe there was a peaceful Golden Age during which people didn't spread by war and violence, with more efficient cultures destroying those which weren't as good at killing.
So they are constantly reading these memes into the limited evidence, which is usually overturned pretty quickly with evidence of massacres, human sacrifice, cannibalism, etc.
Very interesting! Please keep us posted on new reports.
Ping.
The researchers were surprised with the button he was wearing:
It read: Cain 2012
2ND BOLZANO MUMMY CONGRESS? The first one was a real gas. Who can forget John and Peggy at the “COME AS YOUR FAVORITE MUMMY” party? Lady Gagme singing “ALL BANDAGED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO”? The “WHO CAN STAY LONGEST IN THE COOLER?” contest? You can’t buy fun like that, but you can rent it.
Drumroll.............
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Thanks FritzG and blam. It's little known, but Oetzi the Iceman was an artist all those thousands of years ago. |
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**From his genes, we now know that the Iceman had brown hair and brown eyes ... Not surprisingly, he is more related to people living in southern Europe today than to those in North Africa or the Middle East, with close connections to geographically isolated modern populations in Sardinia, Sicily, and the Iberian Peninsula. **
Well, that describes my husband!
ya beat me to it. Gervin is the REAL Iceman.
“It seems that the surest bet is on the unexpected, so I am hopeful that the Tyrolean Iceman will have some surprises in store for us; these may upset existing paradigms, but will pave the way for new ones.”
I remember when the original researchers were surprised, after a year of careful study, when other researchers discovered an arrowhead lodged in the mummy.
In regards to the various theories on population changes, I trend toward the one not mentioned. The hybrid theory that includes all those other theories.
If there’s one thing certain about humanity, if there’s a different way to do something, it’ll be done that way. And even if it doesn’t make any sense to do it a particular way, there’ll always be groups of numbnuts doing it that way.
Now, about that map pic you posted...
It seems obvious to me that Iceman was traveling to that engraved stella site to vent his desire that the gods save him from the piles.
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