Ötzi

[Treeaddict]

Ötzi the Iceman: What we know 3 decades after his discovery

Considered "Europe’s most famous mummy," the remains of the man who was murdered in the Alps 5,000 years ago continue to reveal details of Neolithic life—and insights into modern health.

www.nationalgeographic.com

If it’s the same mummy, I just saw on a documentary that he had Lymes disease. It was a 5000 year old mummy preserved in a glacier. He was murdered and found in the Alps I believe.

 

[cory]

Yes.

Btw does the link work for you or do you have to be a member?

 

[lxskllr]

Paywalled

 

[cory]

Damn

 

[FireFighterZero]

You know whats also cool?

They found George Mallory and videoed it.

 

[Treeaddict]

Yes.

Btw does the link work for you or do you have to be a member?

It didnt want to take me to the article without membership

 

[Mick!]

Here’s the article, I screen shot it.

 

[cory]

Thanks, Mick

 

[gf beranek]

Fascinating.

 

[cory]

Otzi the Iceman was balding, middle aged, and dark-skinned » Explorersweb

New DNA analysis suggests that Otzi the Iceman looked very different than scientists previously thought, with dark skin and a receding hairline.

explorersweb.com

 

[cory]

Apparently 25th anniversary of the 5300 y o find.

https://www.iceman.it/en/equipment/

 

[gf beranek]

That's great. Cory.

The on going story about Otzi keeps getting better... the "ice man"

I see it as one of the most revealing archeological finds in my time.

Besides just perfecting the tools needed for survival people in that time, around the world, man was already predicting the movement of the planets and stars.

How fast we have evolve.

 

[cory]

Ötzi's ink

Chalcolithic Tattooing: Historical and Experimental Evaluation of the Tyrolean Iceman's Body Markings | European Journal of Archaeology | Cambridge Core

Chalcolithic Tattooing: Historical and Experimental Evaluation of the Tyrolean Iceman's Body Markings - Volume 27 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

 

[Kaveman]

I couldn't get the article to translate, but I have an anecdote about primitive tattoos.

Dad had several done by a method commonly known as "stitching". A threaded needle (usually bone, threaded with horse hair) is drawn through a pigment (usually carbon black, from charcoal). Then the needle is stitched through the skin, the thread deposits a dot at the entrance and exit of the skin. The process in repeated until a dot matrix type of design is complete.

My first tattoo was applied by a technique called "driven bone". A bone needle is attached to a femur bone, or an equivalent stick. This apparatus is then held over the skin and struck repeatedly with the other femur bone or a second stick. While the pigment is again typically carbon black, others can be used or mixed in. Mine was done with an ancient bottle of India ink, and has faded to a blue green, like most tattoos.



It's a mayfly. A constant reminder of the brevity of life. It's also a pretty long tradition, identical tattoos can be found on my family as far back as there's pictures, and the lore stretches much further.

 

[cory]

Nice stuff!

Btw, the article was 98% in english, maybe you dint scroll down far enough