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 ...
Yup! My Shanghai-born lady friend complains about these things. But she speaks with no accent whatsoever! She does sometimes ask me to proofread her papers though.
Lonely for so long, now he will be reunited.
Looks like she’s going to need a hip replacement.
her ossified tongue was found and appeared to have been sharpened to a razor edge.
Some are theorizing the sharpened tongue was responsible for driving the Ice man up on the mountain
;’)
Are there any close-ups of the skull?
Of course they will, since you just gave it academic legitimacy. And they'll blame you if ridiculed for it; or claim you're a plagiarist if it flies, and you try to claim precedence.
A CC instructor is too lowly on the academic publishing totem pole for any other result.
Hey, do you know where John II liked to vacation?
I see the right radius and ulna through the rib cage - near pelvis. (I think.)
“A CC instructor is too lowly on the academic publishing totem pole for any other result.”
I had forgotten about this thread. I am even lower than you may think, LOL, but no one is lower than the so-called academics that jump to conclusions, and demand punitive action without evidence. The universities are full of leftist reactionaries who claim the moral high ground when they are actually the ones in the wrong.
Oh, I see you’ve heard of Duke.
Cancun, I think.
I wish it were only Duke. The community colleges are increasingly full of the same type of pompous, unthinking fools. Truth, dignity, decency, and reality are concepts that are becoming uncommon among these people. If those things mattered to academia why would any college hire Bill Ayres, or that murderous moonbat he is married to? Now my blood pressure is rising!
Have a good day.
Pretty sure she is a long, long way from Otzi. This is very close to the French border but IIRC, Otzi was close to the Austrian border.
I’d hoped to find an updated story, or a university website or something, but, bupkis.
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