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Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Ötzi: The Frozen Man from the Alps" video.
The position of the left arm across the chest is typical of corpses that had been turned face down right after the death. The killer did so to retrieve his arrow, but he didn't take any of Ötzi's possessions, the arrows, the bow, not even the precious copper axe. Because they likely were of the same community, and both the arrow on Ötzi's body, and his possession in the hands of the killer would have revealed the cuplrit. Like many murder victims, Ötzi knew his killer.
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Two on two arrows, one on the dagger, one (on four different locations) on the coat.
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The position of the left arm across the chest is typical of corpses that had been turned face down right after the death. The killer did so to recover his arrow, but he didn't take any of Ötzi's possessions, the arrows, the bow, not even the precious copper axe. Because they likely were of the same community, and both the arrow on Ötzi's body, and his possession in the hands of the killer would have revealed the cuplrit. Like many murder victims, Ötzi knew his killer.
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Like much of murder victims, Ötzi knew his killer. The position of the left arm across the chest is typical of corpses that had been turned face down right after the death. The killer did so to retrieve his arrow, but he didn't take any of Ötzi's possessions, the arrows, the bow, not even the precious copper axe. Because they likely were of the same community, and both the arrow on Ötzi's body, and his possession in the hands of the killer would have revealed the cuplrit.
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It had been seen that cavities are really rare on hunter-gatherers, while become common with the transition to agriculture and grain-heavy diets. Ötzi's teeth indicates a high carb diet. As said, he didn't have arteriosclerosys for that, but because he was genetically disposed to that. His last meals were probably not his normal meals, but calories-dense meals used for trips.
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You own your ancestors' bones?
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He was probably fleeing. He was near to the watershed, and the forensic estabilished he was shot in the back probably from about 100m distance.
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Forensic estabilished he was shot from about 100m distance. Pretty elaborate for a ritual killing. More, other than the wound on the hand, that's a typical defensive wound, there was the blood of other four people on his items. Two on two arrows, one on the dagger and one (in four different stains) on the coat. Finally, the position of the left arm across the chest is typical of corpses that had been turned face down right after the death. The killer shot him in the back from a distance, but then reached the corpse and turned it face down, probably to recover his arrow.
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Actually organic material found into all the pyramids had been radiocarbon dated.
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@dcmango6840 As I said, organic material found into all the pyramids had been radiocarbon dated. Is not a question of "a mark in an interior chamber", nor of "some Egyptologists". Almost all the Egyptologists consider the Giza's pyramids tombs built during the 4th dinasty. Samples dated in the '80s didn't take into account the fluctuations of the concentration of C14 in the atmosphere. More recent datings took that into account, and narrowed the range. The other problem is the one of the "old wood". Once we find a piece of wood into a wall, we know that it can't be more recent than the construction of the wall, but the wood itself could have been a century old, or more, when it had been left there. The date you obtain is not that of the building of the wall, but that of the cutting of the wood.
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@dcmango6840 There is always someone that stated something that seems in accord with every opinion. Hawass simply doesn't consider radiocarbon dating to be precise enough to date Egyptian dinasties, because, for him, the margin of error is too wide. He wants a margin of error of a decade and not of a century. That's different than saying that the tecnique is outright useless or provides wrong results. The same Hawass never stated that the Giza pyramids had been built by someone else than Egyptians of the 4th dinasty.
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Like many murder victims, Ötzi knew his killer. The position of the left arm across the chest is typical of corpses that had been turned face down right after the death. The killer did so to retrieve his arrow, but he didn't take any of Ötzi's possessions, the arrows, the bow, not even the precious copper axe. Because they likely were of the same community, and both the arrow on Ötzi's body, and his possession in the hands of the killer would have revealed the cuplrit.
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Yeah. He managed to shot an arrow in his back from 100m distance (that's what the forensic estabilised). He had to be an hell of a sprinter.
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The mitochondrial DNA is inherited only from the mother. Otzi's mithocondrial DNA is not shared by living humans, so, if he had sisters, they didn't left living descendants.
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organic material in them had been radiocarbon dated. The age of the central pyramid varies from 3196 to 2753 BC (problem of the "old wood").
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@TubeRudeYou In a rather small community, someone suddenly having copper available when someone else, that everyone knew had a copper axe, disappeared...
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It had been found the blood of four different people on Otzi's items. Two on two arrows, one on his dagger, and one, in four different stains, on his coat.
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Something has to be said about the bow, that's in itself quite impressive. It was made of yew, 1.82m long, with an elliptical cross-section. Studies made on bows with the same dimensions and made of the same alpine yew put the draw weight at 150-160 lbs. That would be on the high-end of the spectrum of medieval warbows and out of the range for hunting bows.
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@ericsalles3393 From what we know of medieval archery, the answer should be "no". Medieval archers had their bodies visibly deformed by the continuous use of bows of that draw weight, and such deformations are absent in Ötzi. It has to be said that medieval war archers, trained continuously with those bows, to be able to use it repeatedly in battle. An hunter can use his bow two or three times a week. And Ötzi's bow already defied what we knew of longbow's construction. According to the previously accepted knowledge, a bow with that shape ("D" section, with the flat part on the outside and without sap) should have cracked first to reach 28" draw lenght. Obviously reproductions didn't crack even at 32" draw lenght, and had been described as being very pleasant to use. It's probably a common case of "ancient people knew their tools far better than we do".
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His diet was grain heavy, as testified by the condition of his teeth. The guy was already more a farmer than an hunter.
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