Alpine ice man may have been childless outcast

Reuters ^ | Fri Feb 3, 2006 | Sophie Hardach

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Please add me to your list

[Pharmboy]

"Insofar as the 'iceman' was found to possess both mutations, the possibility that he was unable to father offspring cannot be eliminated," the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in the Alpine town of Bolzano said in a statement.

"This not improbable hypothesis raises new questions concerning his social rank within his society," it added, arguing that the new evidence supported a theory that viewed the man as a social outcast.

Of all the stupid bloviations anthropologists have made over the years based on little more than thin air, this is the dumbest. Yeah...his hunter-gatherer colleagues KNEW he was sterile and that's why they killed him.

GEEZ...why don't they STFU sometimes...

[MaxMax]

Maybe he was exiled for trying to sell bottled water.

[Rebelbase]

"I find everyone's perverted conjecture and asinine remarks about my kin to be highly Neanderthalish."

[The Comedian]

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Proto-FReerider ping...

[martin_fierro]

SING ALONG WITH OL' MARTY