The last analysis performed on the mummy's oldest human world of 5300 years old and known as the man of ice, have revealed that he was beaten and murdered a crush, as reported yesterday by the daily Il Corriere della Sera. Since its discovery, Ötzi, as the mummy known to have been found in 1991 between ice OTZ Valley, in the Italian Alpine region of Alto Adige, has undergone numerous tests that have all the details on your life: he was a resident of the Italian Alps, from 3300 a. C. (Copper Age in Europe) and died at 46 years.
But the big mystery that has surrounded the man with ice in all these years was how he died, as was initially thought that was caught by a storm while hunting near his village. However, some wounds on his body made the researchers suspect. Recent reviews by a team at the LMU University of Munich (Germany) in collaboration with the Institute of Pathology of Bolzano (Italy) have revealed that the man died on the ice after several attacks by some rivals.
"It turns out that Ötzi was beaten twice in his last days and living in two separate attacks," said the head of the team of scientists, Andreas Nerlich, in statements to the newspaper Corriere della Sera. Wounds, found 5300 years after his death are three: a deep cut on his hand, the result of a first attack and then an arrow wound, whose tip has been found under the right armpit. Scientists say that shortly after being wounded while bleeds, it received the final fatal blow in the back with a blunt instrument. When found, the ice man wearing a goat skin shoes and a hat with him and had a copper ax and a quiver full of arrows.
FIND The September 19, 1991 appeared on the Similaun glacier, 94 meters of the fuzzy border between Austria and Italy, a corpse which was soon proved that he belonged to a Neolithic inhabitants. Years of study have not led the revolution in archeology announcing the biggest. Nor has been a fiasco because of the historic removal of the remains sloppy. The multitude of evidence that has been submitted indicate that Ötzi was a shepherd of the current Italian side of the Alps died in a normal transit of livestock. The findings provide a monumental amount of information that confirms prior knowledge on Prehistoric Alpine population.
Before there were similar findings, such as Danish men from the mob. "But the oldest of these cases was 2000 years, and people being executed were naked and without tools," says Spindler.
Perhaps one of the most striking findings of the study body and utensils from the man in the ice are indicating healing of the society in which they lived. Three dried mushrooms hanging from ropes have been interpreted as a kind of portable kit, according to Konrad Spindler. Two of them still contained active ingredients: an antibiotic and a antihemorrágico.
REWARD Last year, the German tourist Erika Simon, who along with her husband, who died recently, found the remains of 'Ötzi' succeeded after a long legal battle to receive a reward of 150,000 euros from the Bolzano region, exposing the mummy in a museum. The couple had received in 1994 a symbolic reward of 5,200 euros.
