[Oshkalaboomboom]

Full title: Otzi the iceman really was killed by an ARROW: Europe's oldest mummy died after the weapon struck his major vessels and paralysed him as he lay in a pit 5,300 years ago, confirms study

Some cool pictures at the link.

[Dr. Pritchett]

Took an arrow to the knee. Tough medicine.

[21twelve]

“...that Otzi was indeed shot in the pit in which he was later found.”

I seem to recall they found some of his artifacts neatly laid out nearby? I guess the guys were polite enough to let him do that while he dug his own grave.

More liking perhaps he fell into an animal pit and was on someone else’s happy hunting grounds.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Ancient conspiracy theories ping

[mabarker1]

Thanks for Posting this.

Amazing what they have found out.

Ping

[njslim]

Wait does Detective Columbo know about this .....

Maybe put Hercule Poiret on this cold case .....

[Oratam]

I recall hearing that Otzi is of the very same ethnic stock as the present-day residents of the Alps.

It's amazing to think that with all the movement of peoples over millennia, there's a stable population of hardy Alpine folks living where they have been for over 5000 years.

[sphinx]

Curious. If he was shot in the pit where he was found, I would have expected the body to have been looted. The copper ax especially would have been valuable. Even his friends would have taken that, and his enemies certainly would have.