Re: Researchers say Italy's 5,000-year-old Iceman died from head trauma, not arrow
- From: "Peter Jason" <pj@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:47:43 +1000
Oetzi's sex life is still a mystery. Mat be
the Spanish will take it up into one of their
inimitable movies.
"Jack Linthicum"
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This is starting to sound like an Italian
or French B grade movie.
The researchers believe the Iceman fell
over backward, but was then
turned over onto his stomach by his
aggressor who then pulled out the
arrow shaft while leaving the arrowhead
imbedded in Oetzi's shoulder.
Then the assailant attacked him again with
a blow to the head.
Researchers say Italy's 5,000-year-old
Iceman died from head trauma,
not arrow
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
ROME, Italy: Researchers studying Iceman,
the 5,000-year-old mummy
found frozen in the Italian Alps, have come
up with a new theory for
how he died, saying he died from head
trauma, not by bleeding to death
from an arrow.
Just two months ago, researchers in
Switzerland published an article
in the Journal of Archaeological Science
saying the mummy - also known
as Oetzi - had died after the arrow tore a
hole in an artery beneath
his left collarbone, leading to massive
loss of blood, shock and heart
attack.
But radiologists, pathologists and other
researchers, using new
forensic information and CAT scans, said
Tuesday they believed that
the blood loss from the arrow wound only
made Oetzi lose
consciousness. They believe he died either
by hitting his head on a
rock when he passed out or because his
aggressor attacked him again
with a blow to the head.
The researchers presented their findings
Monday night at the Institute
for Mummies and the Iceman at the European
Academy in Bolzano, a
research institution. The mummy institute
was launched in July to
coordinate research into Oetzi, who is
housed in the nearby South
Tyrol Archaeological Museum.
In a statement Tuesday, the academy said
the findings reopened the
debate over Oetzi's cause of death,
particularly since they took into
account the rather unnatural way in which
his body was found: face
down, with his left arm across his chest.
The researchers believe the Iceman fell
over backward, but was then
turned over onto his stomach by his
aggressor who then pulled out the
arrow shaft while leaving the arrowhead
imbedded in Oetzi's shoulder.
In a paper published in the archaeological
magazine Germania, the
researchers said they had determined that
Oetzi assumed his final
position before rigor mortis set in. They
also said that based on his
good health and equipment found with him,
that he belonged to a social
class not accustomed to manual labor.
The researchers were: Andreas Lippert, a
prehistory professor at the
University of Vienna, Dr. Paul Gostner, a
radiologist at the Bolzano
regional hospital, Dr. Eduard Egarter Vigl,
a pathologist at the
Bolzano hospital, and Dr. Patrizia Pernter,
a radiologist at the
hospital.
Oetzi was found in 1991 by accident by a
group of hikers. In 2000, his
body was temporarily thawed so that
researchers could take samples to
study. They have found that his last meal
included unleavened bread
made of einkorn, a type of wheat, as well
as some greens. DNA from the
contents of his intestines showed he had
also consumed venison as one
of his last meals - strengthening the
theory that he was a hunter.
While little else is known about Oetzi
himself, he was carrying a bow,
a quiver of arrows and a copper ax.
.
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