The following post by Arqueo Educa is fascinating in that it not only gives us insight regarding an individual living approximately 5,000 years ago, but a glimpse into the possible details of the last moments of his life.
DETECTIVES IN THE PRESTORY
We return to our old friend Ötzi, the oldest European human mummy, inexhaustible source of information to find out what our ancestors looked like just over 5,000 years ago, during European Calcolithic.
The reason is that the Museum of Bolzano, where the remains of Ötzi are very fresh, commissioned a police investigation to try to rebuild the death of the ′′ Iceman ".
In charge of the inquiries has been Munich criminalist and police inspector Alexander Horn.
Horn interviewed an endless legion of scientists (from dermatologists, paleoforens, primitive archery experts, geologists to archaeometallurgy specialists) to learn about the exact nature of the injuries. And then he scrolled to the Otzal Valley to tour the crime scene hoping to figure out how the facts happened.
His findings were as follows:
- Ötzi died murdered (we already knew that) to treason, receiving a crush on his back that paralyzed his left arm. By the depth and position in which the stone tip is embedded, in the left lung, the arrow could be fired at a distance of 18 m to 20 m and impacted Ötzi's back at a rate of 18 m 50 meters per second.
- We already know how. Now it's time to know why. Horn points out that the murder motive should have been revenge, as Ötzi wasn't stripped of any of his valuable possessions he had 9 him. Among them is a copper axe from Tuscany. This hypothesis is endorsed by the recent ′′ defense ′′ wound that presents the body in one of his hands and the presence of DNA of various individuals in the blood remains present in the Ötzi knife and arrows.
- Regarding the ′′ who ′′ is presumed to be the owner of the blood present at Ötzi's remains, or any of his family members. It's hard to know and even the possibility of starting a dig in that area of the glacier to search for more data has been raised.
As always we get closer to the Iceman, the more we find out the more questions come up. For example, what was an armed guy doing to be in a desert glacier area at 3,100 feet above? Hopefully, future excavations or discoveries about his remains will cast us out of doubt.
Posted by Arqueo Educa on Facebook on January 24, 2021
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