5,200 years ago.
Wow.
Ibex: It’s what’s for dinner!
Interesting, thanks for the post.
CAT scans and DNA sequencing are opening up so many new avenues in archaeology it will take decades to describe and catalog the data. Amazing stuff...
Isn’t there an active effort underway right now to clone a baby mammonth?? (I don’t feel like wading through Google at the moment, and Freepers know just about all...) As I recall, it was going to take something like five or six generations of very careful breeding, and using African elephants as foster mothers, but because so much intact mammoth DNA has been recovered and sequenced, the project is possible. There have been a number of intact or nearly intact and solidly frozen mammoths collected in just the last couple of decades that the DNA research is quite advanced...
I bet that Iceman never met an ibex like this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TugslL45aXk
Phew, I thought this was about George Gervin.
Should have skipped the ibex and strolled on until he found a White Castle.
“heavy bacterial dose on these teeth.”
Whew!! Imagine the halitosis.
How did they know his name? Did they dig up his wallet too, with a photo ID? ;-)
Previous research on the Iceman's meals focused on fecal material removed from his bowels. The contents showed that he dined on red deer meat and possibly cereal some 4 hours before his death
What kind of cereal? Corn flakes, cheerios, lucky charms? ;-)