Posted on 08/29/2007 9:26:19 AM PDT by blam
Researchers say Italy's 5,000-year-old Iceman died from head trauma, not arrow
The Associated PressPublished: August 28, 2007
ROME, Italy: Researchers studying Iceman, the 5,000-year-old mummy found frozen in the Italian Alps, have come up with a new theory for how he died, saying he died from head trauma, not by bleeding to death from an arrow.
Just two months ago, researchers in Switzerland published an article in the Journal of Archaeological Science saying the mummy — also known as Oetzi — had died after the arrow tore a hole in an artery beneath his left collarbone, leading to massive loss of blood, shock and heart attack.
But radiologists, pathologists and other researchers, using new forensic information and CAT scans, said Tuesday they believed that the blood loss from the arrow wound only made Oetzi lose consciousness. They believe he died either by hitting his head on a rock when he passed out or because his aggressor attacked him again with a blow to the head.
The researchers presented their findings Monday night at the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman at the European Academy in Bolzano, a research institution. The mummy institute was launched in July to coordinate research into Oetzi, who is housed in the nearby South Tyrol Archaeological Museum.
In a statement Tuesday, the academy said the findings reopened the debate over Oetzi's cause of death, particularly since they took into account the rather unnatural way in which his body was found: face down, with his left arm across his chest.
The researchers believe the Iceman fell over backward, but was then turned over onto his stomach by his aggressor who then pulled out the arrow shaft while leaving the arrowhead imbedded in Oetzi's shoulder.
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"We analysed samples, scrapings from the knife, the axe and from his jacket and it indicates that the blood samples are actually from several different individuals," Dr Ian Findlay, of the Australian Genome Research Facility in Brisbane, said."
The bumperstickers are only big enough to mention "guns", but should read:
Arrows, Clubs and Guns don't kill people - People Kill People!"
‘..but you would reply that you have never in your life visited corrigible.”
I once visited corrigible in a dirigible.
I hereby nominate your story to be told at this website:
They rejected me because I don’t have a video.
It’s just as well. The costs of filming an event like that would quickly balloon causing the effort to be out of reach.
The very same thing happened to me when I tried to date a girl from a very tight Italian neighborhood in Steubenville, Ohio. The real question is, "was Oetzi on his way into that neighborhood ... or out?" I also heard he was carrying a Philly voter registration card ... or soon will be.
“Does this mean we should have banned arrows and clubs?”
Good one.
Stop dragging up these old VRWC theories. Of course, these deaths were suicides. It's what any reasonable person would do, faced with the prospect of Hillary as President.
Look for a wave of'em in 2008.
PS, LiM, did you attend Pubic Scool in ''Massachussets?''
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