Alpine Iceman (Oetzi) Reveals Stone Age Secrets

Swissinfo.org ^ | 2-17-2005 | Sophie Hardach

[blam]

I don't like the fact that they're playing up the curse angle.

BTW, the copper axe found with Oetzi pushed the date of the 'copper-age' back by 1,000 years and his acupuncture marks are making anthropologist rethink the origins of that custom. It was previously believed to have been an Asian custom.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

This report was published today...Nothing new from the last report as I see it. I've posted for the benefit of the occasional GGG browser.

[Sax]

"Science has also been unable to explain a series of sinister accidents since the iceman was discovered."

Mysteriously every one Oetzi knew during is lifetime is also dead. People die - get over it - your'e right - the curse angle is just a cheap Hardcopy trick!

[Lee Heggy]

The only curse I can imagine in this would have been 'Damn!' when Simon fell.

[chapin2500]

"But even the best scientists have been unable to explain the exact circumstances of his death."

In 2001, with the help of digital x-ray images, doctors detected an arrowhead in the iceman's shoulder blade.


Ummm, I would say he was shot with an arrow.

[edwin hubble]

good post.

On the copper axe: Didn't they find natural alloying process that made the copper harder (than it's natural soft elemental state?).

If I recall, the conventional smelting process at the time would have been simply to heat the copper-bearing rocks in a Very hot fire and let the copper run out. (?)

[Pharmboy]

Here we go again...

[Marano NYC]

This article also destroys the Urban Myth of of Tattoos coming to Europe via Captain Cook . My anthropology professor told us that version in 1988.

[fat city]

Sounds like Simon was "toppled by younger rivlals".

[Plutarch]

Tattoos -- a series of short, dark, parallel lines -- had been placed to treat his arthritis as an early form of acupuncture.

More speculation presented as fact.

[DC native]

Was he found in Fort Marcy Park? I'm not buyin' that arrowhead story......

[Sax]

Actually it was his UPC symbol so the aliens who placed him there could check him out of their inventory.

Did they find his tinfoil hat?

[CTOCS]

"pushed the date of the 'copper-age' back by 1,000 years"

Even after they found "Made In Taiwan" stamped on the back??

[Deaf Smith]

Okay.

They explained away his stash of pyote from his previous trip to west Texas...

That his jailhouse tat's are not his record of kills,

That where he was 25-35 years previous somehow must be his home, though no old lady is going to own him,

That incident at the bar, where as he was showing off his axe throwing skills is not reallly how he cut his hand (thanks alot O. J.)

Yet they cannot figure out how/why he died on a cold mountain, freezing his a** off trying to out run that irate husband that caught him messing with his wife.

[Texan5]

I watch every program on the iceman-I seem to remember in one on Discovery Channel a scientist saying he was probably a metal worker because there were traces of something in his hair associated with smelting.

[expatpat]

I wondered why he needed acupuncture until I saw that he had an arrowhead buried in his shoulder-blade!

[blam]

"On the copper axe: Didn't they find natural alloying process that made the copper harder (than it's natural soft elemental state?). "

Maybe but, I don't recall that part.

[blam]

"I watch every program on the iceman-I seem to remember in one on Discovery Channel a scientist saying he was probably a metal worker because there were traces of something in his hair associated with smelting."

Yup but, I thought it was in his lungs...could be wrong though.

[Mariposaman]

Now I get it...Michael Jackson's ultimate goal is to look like the Iceman!

[mugs99]

The archaeologist explained Simon had been profoundly moved by his discovery, seeing it as a religious signal to convert to Christianity.

The Iceman was a Christian?
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