Modern society is so removed from total dependence upon the seasons, that it's hard to imagine ancient times when winter meant life or death, depending on whether your fired stayed lit, whether you'd managed to garner enough food for the winter, whether you fell thru an ice crevice while hunting like Otzi....
Oetzi was killed. He died from an arrow wound through the back but, he went down fighting because he had the blood of four other people on his clothes.