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Can we fill in the blanks for Ötzi the Iceman

Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:49 pm
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
20642 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:49 pm
We know a lot about his last days 5400 years ago in the Italian alps, but we don’t fully know exactly how it went down.

Let’s start with what we do know.

He was a 5’3 German Italian man.

He was lactose intolerant and had Lyme disease. We know he had serious levels of illness 3 times within 6 months of his death.

We know he had arsenic in his hair from copper smelting.

We know several of his tools and weapons were broker or unfinished.

We know that he had blood particles of 4 people including himself on weapons and clothing.

We know he ate ibex the day before his death and bacon an hour before his death.

We know that he had three weapons.

We know he was moving vast distances in the three days before his death. At 72 hours til death, he was at an elevation of 8 k feet.
Then we know he returned to an elevation of 4 k feet with evidence he had returned to habitual climate.
And then he died at an elevation of 10 k feet.

He had an axe. A man unfinished bow and arrows, and a knife with him.

Ötzi may have had broken ribs. We can’t say for sure because that damage may have happened after his death. We do know that he was stabbed in the hand 3 days before his death and he had other smaller cuts.

We know he was shot in the shoulder with an arrow. We also know near to the same time he suffered an extensive head wound from a heavy impact. We cannot say for sure which was the lethal wound.

We also know he was probably trashy. He had 61 tattoos and he had gridded away most of his teeth. He may have been upper middle class though thanks to the axe.

Also, the tattoos may have been a form of early acupuncture.

So, what is your interpretation of all of this

This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 3:53 pm
Posted by Tyga Woods
South Central Jupiter Island, FL
Member since Sep 2016
42889 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:51 pm to
He was doing Hauslabjoch stuff with his Hauslabjoch friends
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 3:59 pm
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
24496 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:58 pm to
Sounds like he was traveling/hunting and ran across some ruffians who were about. All the travel leads me to believe they spotted him and they got into a tussle. He then tried to evade a group for a few days before they caught up to him and ended him.
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 4:00 pm
Posted by Amadeo
Member since Jan 2004
4900 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:01 pm to
He probably didn't know what an umlaut was much less apply it to his name.
Posted by AU_RX
City of St George
Member since May 2005
4640 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:03 pm to
quote:

and bacon an hour before his death


How we should all leave this world
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
20642 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:06 pm to
But he had other people’s blood on him too! I wandered if he was a criminal on the run and these guys chased after him
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 4:07 pm
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
24496 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:10 pm to
quote:

But he had other people’s blood on him too!

Right. He ran across a group, got into a scrap with them, escaped and evaded for a few days while possibly injured. The group tracked him down and killed him.
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
60197 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:10 pm to
*insert Game of Thrones reference here*
Posted by VABuckeye
NOVA
Member since Dec 2007
38283 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:16 pm to
Otzi lived his life. That's what he did.
Posted by kemowasabi
river parishes
Member since Jun 2018
1248 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:58 pm to
He had a spat at the Local Sonic.
Posted by SidetrackSilvera
Member since Nov 2012
2895 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 5:02 pm to
Status of knuckles?
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
106022 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 5:06 pm to
He was a proto baw
Posted by DArbonneDuke
D'Arbonne, LA
Member since Nov 2005
1462 posts
Posted on 5/22/19 at 5:07 pm to
I want one of those ibex bacon burgers
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
20642 posts
Posted on 5/23/19 at 11:27 am to
Must have been fun to just be able to go hiking e dry day in the alps
Posted by GreyWhiskers
St. Tammany
Member since Nov 2018
913 posts
Posted on 5/23/19 at 11:37 am to
I think he ran into rival tribe members whomever they could’ve been, got into a scuffle with them, ended up wounded. Attempted to make an escape, but the weather took a turn for the worse, got caught up a snow storm, which ended his life. If his rivals were hot on his trail, they would’ve looted him when he died.
This post was edited on 5/23/19 at 12:17 pm
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
20642 posts
Posted on 5/23/19 at 11:52 am to
Well, we know he shot two people with his arrows.

And someone removed the arrow shaft from his body before he died.
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