"That is one good-looking mummy."
Posted on 07/25/2011 3:49:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Italian workers building an addition to a kindergarten have unearthed a well preserved female skeleton who might be relatively contemporaneous with Ötzi, the Iceman mummy discovered 20 years ago in a melting glacier in South Tyrol.
The "Lady of Introd" or "Ötzi's girlfriend," as the skeleton was nicknamed in Italy, was found in the tiny Alpine village of Introd, in the Val d'Aosta, famous to be the preferred vacationing spot for both Pope John II and his successor Benedict XVI.
According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the woman has been lying on her right side, with her head facing west, for about 5,000 years.
The dating to the third millennium B.C. was based on the skeleton's burial position and stratigraphy, said Vittorio Anglesio, mayor of Introd.
"She appears to have been buried without any grave goods. However, we are now going to extend the dig to better investigate the area," Anglesio told Discovery News.
Moved to a laboratory, the skeletal remains are now being analyzed in order to assess the diet, the age at death, possible diseases and causes of death.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
Can’t wait for the write-up! Thanks for the thread :)
—and tired of having to listen to the village elders complain about the younger generation-—_”when we were kids the water was twice as far away, the jars were twice as big and it was uphill both ways—to and from the water hole”-—
“She appears to have long legs for her torso size”
Getting a vision of Raquel Welch in a fur bikini. Lucky Iceman.
Interesting that they have dated her to about the same time as Otzi.
Years ago I speculated on FR about what Otzi was doing way up on that mountain, apparently making toward the pass, with an arrow wound in his back.
My speculation was that he was on a raid from over the pass and got chased and killed. I wrote a short story with a plot that the raid was to steal one of those Italian babes—VA VA VOOM if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
"That is one good-looking mummy."
BOOKbump
If passing hikers don’t steal this one’s uterus I’ll volunteer to have her babies.
What, is this joke to obscure for the GGG pinglist?
If passing hikers don’t steal this one’s uterus I’ll volunteer to have her babies.
What, is this joke too obscure for the GGG pinglist?
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She may be 5,000, but she has the body of a 3,000 year old!
She looks thin, hope she is feeling ok...
He’s the main reason there are museum guards.
Based on the current evidence I think it is safe to assume that Otzi was a woman beater. Of course, I am relying on my training as an anthropologist.
Just be glad no spelling nazis have arrived to point out that you misspelled “too”. Oh, dang, it happened before I realized...
Anyway, I got it — seems like there’s a topic about that, I’d forgotten, and thanks for the reminder...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/900292/posts
See, now that’s one of those messages that cause a decent number of unusable jokes to surface in my mind. ;’)
Thanks. And, wow, I’ve never seen your handle before, that I remember, and you’ve been around for a loooong time (on FR).
That looks like he’s got his face right up to the peek-a-boo on the front door. Good time to just punch right on through.
With Wilma and Betty around, I can’t see why they had a gay old time.
By next year, she’ll be 5,001, and I can’t wait that long to use that old joke, which is probably in the area of 3,000 years young.
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