Posted on 07/25/2011 3:49:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Italian workers building an addition to a kindergarten have unearthed a well preserved female skeleton who might be relatively contemporaneous with Ötzi, the Iceman mummy discovered 20 years ago in a melting glacier in South Tyrol.
The "Lady of Introd" or "Ötzi's girlfriend," as the skeleton was nicknamed in Italy, was found in the tiny Alpine village of Introd, in the Val d'Aosta, famous to be the preferred vacationing spot for both Pope John II and his successor Benedict XVI.
According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the woman has been lying on her right side, with her head facing west, for about 5,000 years.
The dating to the third millennium B.C. was based on the skeleton's burial position and stratigraphy, said Vittorio Anglesio, mayor of Introd.
"She appears to have been buried without any grave goods. However, we are now going to extend the dig to better investigate the area," Anglesio told Discovery News.
Moved to a laboratory, the skeletal remains are now being analyzed in order to assess the diet, the age at death, possible diseases and causes of death.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
The key is, to raid the villages at the top of the mountains, makes for an easier getaway, particularly when carrying off some stone age wench.
It’s weird to think of Raquel Welch being the age she must be now.
Well as member of academia I try not to jump to any conclusions. Science must be driven by facts and facts alone. By the way, because she seems to have no artifacts in her grave, it appears that Otzi not only beat her to death, but then he stole her stuff!
LOL. You're not on the Duke faculty, are you?
How did you guess? Really I am not on the faculty at Duke, but I think I am well qualified to join that prestigious faculty of truly open minded, fact driven, unbiased members of the academy. In fact, I could show them how to really write a faculty petition that demands justice.
and for dessert, lady fingers.
I actually teach Native American Antrhopology at a community college. It always amazes me how supposedly well educated people can jump to such outlandish conclusions based on the slimmest of evidence. I would not doubt that some serious anthropologist will come up with the same silliness I have been spouting. He/she will probably publish a paper drawing the same conclusions that people have been joking about on this thread, only it will be taken seriously.
Oetzi beat up a tootsie, oopsie.
I can’t believe you are saying these things! How shocking!
Is it really good champagne?
It’s so good, Oetzi was working on a time machine when he was killed, in order to get some. Champagne.
Good one! I liked that. :-)
It was purloined, but I enjoy using it. :’)
Just couldn’t resist the finger foods.....
I suspect that at that time and in that area food was a mixture of agriculture and hunting/gathering.
Note: this topic was posted 7/25/2011. Re-pinging to the list, I'd forgotten all this.
” you misspelled “too””
And you’re referring to two tu tus too?
Ugh! That’s bad lol.
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