BTW, the copper axe found with Oetzi pushed the date of the 'copper-age' back by 1,000 years and his acupuncture marks are making anthropologist rethink the origins of that custom. It was previously believed to have been an Asian custom.
This report was published today...Nothing new from the last report as I see it. I've posted for the benefit of the occasional GGG browser.
"Science has also been unable to explain a series of sinister accidents since the iceman was discovered."
Mysteriously every one Oetzi knew during is lifetime is also dead. People die - get over it - your'e right - the curse angle is just a cheap Hardcopy trick!
The only curse I can imagine in this would have been 'Damn!' when Simon fell.
good post.
On the copper axe: Didn't they find natural alloying process that made the copper harder (than it's natural soft elemental state?).
If I recall, the conventional smelting process at the time would have been simply to heat the copper-bearing rocks in a Very hot fire and let the copper run out. (?)
More speculation presented as fact.
Was he found in Fort Marcy Park? I'm not buyin' that arrowhead story......
"pushed the date of the 'copper-age' back by 1,000 years"
Even after they found "Made In Taiwan" stamped on the back??
They explained away his stash of pyote from his previous trip to west Texas...
That his jailhouse tat's are not his record of kills,
That where he was 25-35 years previous somehow must be his home, though no old lady is going to own him,
That incident at the bar, where as he was showing off his axe throwing skills is not reallly how he cut his hand (thanks alot O. J.)
Yet they cannot figure out how/why he died on a cold mountain, freezing his a** off trying to out run that irate husband that caught him messing with his wife.
I watch every program on the iceman-I seem to remember in one on Discovery Channel a scientist saying he was probably a metal worker because there were traces of something in his hair associated with smelting.
I wondered why he needed acupuncture until I saw that he had an arrowhead buried in his shoulder-blade!
Now I get it...Michael Jackson's ultimate goal is to look like the Iceman!
Now there's a classic non sequitur.
I'm sure Oetzi is a registered Democrat, votes in Cook County,IL and has known Ted Kennedy since he was a kid.
This was thoroughly explained in a third year episode of "The X-Files."
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Was he carrying an inordinate amount of Sudafed?