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Still do not know everything about the Ötzi? No, since the man of 1.60 meters, 60 kilos and 45 years old came out of the ice in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps at 3208 meters altitude after 5300 years he is good for surprises. At first, radiologists from the University of Innsbruck had – in forensic medicine had the "Hauslabjoch corpse thing" as "No. 619/91" again put in the ice – simply neglected only in the Left shoulder a glued arrowhead.
The first noticed Eduard Egarter-Vigel, Primary of Pathology in Bolzano, in which man was caught ice cream in 2006, after that it was established that the discovery was on Italian soil . There, the doctors reconstructed the last minutes of the bruised man: he had not only the arrow in his body, he was also involved in a close fight, cut himself while trying to push back a knife, a hand in half right of the face was a bruise in the brain there were blood clots. Apparently Ötzi had banged his head on a stone, whether by a blow or a fall, could not be clarified.
Broken teeth, calcified vessels
Otherwise much has been badyzed: its origin, its health, its teeth. The former remained in the dark because the genes were most likely to indicate Sardinia, but isotopes in the bones testified that Ötzi had grown up in the Tyrol. A sharper picture showed teeth: some were broken, some eaten, because Ötzi was also fed cereals and whose strength allowed the bacteria to grow, caries. In general, his health was not optimal: the blood vessels were highly calcified and he also had three genes at risk for cardiovascular disease. He also suffered from Lyme disease, an infectious disease transmitted by ticks and causing pain throughout the body.
That Ötzi does not suffer from infarction, we expected his diet: first, he was vegetarian, indicated by hair isotopes. Then the badyzes of his intestinal contents showed a larger menu: hours before his death he had consumed some grains – grain: einkorn – but there was meat, deer and ibex, apparently Ötzi had prepared it on fire, in the intestine was also coal. And one more thing: Moose, six different species. They were deep in the intestine and could not have entered the body during the rather brutal recovery of the find, which was much destroyed. Moose?
But in many, it's in the medicine cabinet, they are used because of their large surface area or their ability to absorb wounds: Maybe Ötzi did he connect his hand injured and licked bloody fingers
Goat's Milk, Einkorn, Steinbockspeck
All of this was not the last ice man's meal, which was still in the stomach , and that could not be found in the mummy for a long time, because the icicle has, upward. But now, its content is badyzed and surprises again: "About 46% of intestinal contents are fat residues," explain Frank Maixner and Albert Zink of the Bolzano Mummy Research Institute. This fat came partly from goat's milk – probably eaten like cheese, Ötzi had not yet had the variant of the gene that makes adults tolerate milk – partly from capricorn and red deer. This meat was not cooked on fire, it was raw or dried when it was ingested: "The Ice Cream Man's Last Supper was a balanced blend of carbohydrates, proteins and fats perfectly adapted to the needs of walking in height. (Current Biology 12. 7.)
An enigma was again present, no moss, fern, fern. It's poisonous, but it's consumed in some cultures. Also in the Ötzis? Perhaps it was used as a medicine – Ötzi had Helicobacter bacteria in the stomach, it could cause ulcers and cancers – maybe the leaves had simply been used as packaging for food.
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