Posted on 07/12/2018 5:57:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Talk about a paleo diet. Scientists have uncovered the last meal of a frozen hunter who died 5,300 years ago in the Alps. The stomach contents of the corpse, widely known as Oetzi the Iceman, offer a snapshot of what ancient Europeans ate more than five millennia ago, researchers said. On the menu, described Thursday in the journal Current Biology, were the fat and meat of a wild goat, meat of a red deer and whole wheat seeds, which Oetzi ate shortly before his death. Traces of fern leaves and spores were also discovered in Oetzi's stomach. Scientists think he may have swallowed the plant unintentionally or as a medicine for parasites previously found in his gut. Though the researchers had previously examined Oetzi's intestines, this was the first time they could look into his stomach. The reason is nothing short of grotesque. Following Oetzi's death, the organ moved upwards. It was not until 2009, 18 years after his remains were discovered near the Italy-Austria border, that a radiologist detected it behind the rib cage. And it was full. After slowly defrosting the body, the team took samples and rehydrated them. Nearly half the stomach contents were identified as the body fat of an ibex, a wild goat that still lives in the Alps. That's a lot of fat. But scientists think the finding makes sense... Now, Maixner and his team are hoping to reconstruct the composition of bacteria and other microorganisms that lived in the Iceman's gut, and see how it differs from what modern people show.
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The Left won’t be happy - they claimed he was a VEGETARIAN, winds up that Iceman wasn’t a Leftist, but instead ate meat.
I know where to get wild deer, but where can we get Ibex meat?........................
European Alpine Ibex...................
Well, they said his stomach was grotesque, so I’m guessing it was Chipotle.
He may have been waylaid by a group of yokels who specialized in robbing travelers. That's an old practice and it still goes on.
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