Gee, what are the odds that a backwoods caveman would have eating utensil artifacts which were over 1500 years old from his age, in his possession and using them in his same abode when he was frozen for another 3000 years?
..and to think we only have ‘antiques’ that are 20-200 years old in our proximity, and generally not as closer guarded as this poor fellow must have regarded them. IMHO 1500 years is quite a long time for a family to keep a bowl around.
Maybe the dating methods reveal more about their theories than any evidence they have found.
That’s not in the article.
The quiver was left somewhere up in the Alps 300 years after the Iceman croaked. The other artifacts were found in various spots, and have various ages, and none of them appear to have anything to do with the Iceman.