Note: this topic was posted 2/25/2011. Thanks Kartographer.
Posted on 02/25/2011 10:50:46 AM PST by Kartographer
In the year 3289 BC, Otzi trekked up the Schnalstal glacier in the Italian Alps. The Neolithic guy -- dubbed Otzi the Iceman, or Frozen Fritz -- wore a coat and leggings made of sheep's fur and moccasins made of cattle leather as he climbed, having just polished off his last meal: unleavened bread and meat.
Severely wounded by an arrow and possibly dispatched with a blow to the head by a cudgel, he died, his body froze and was mummified, and he lay in place for a very, very long time.
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I remember her
“Take a good look at this face: It hasn’t been seen in over five millennium.”
B.S. that’s my next door neighbor....and I just saw him yesterday.
LOL. I was about to say he looked a lot like my Uncle Oscar after 30 years working in the mines (Arizona in Oscar’s case). :)
I guess they didn’t have barbers back then.
“You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That’s a good-looking mummy!”
Actually, no.
These reconstructions are remarkably accurate. It is based upon well known relationships between the underlying skeleton and the well known thickness of the tissue that sits on top of this foundation.
My apologies, al.
I now see where you are coming from.
Note: this topic was posted 2/25/2011. Thanks Kartographer.
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