iceman update 2012
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Otzi Update
November 2010 Nine hour autopsy took place. Early results issued June 2011
• Importance –scienAfic value • Age -‐ carbon daAng proved that he had lived some 5,300 years ago.
• Also the 'wet' nature of the mummificaAon process
• Rare case in which mummificaAon took place by dehydraAon before the body became embedded in glacier ice
• 2001 radiologist Paul Gostner idenAfied previous thought of shadowing as an arrow head (leP shoulder).
• Since then a full CT (computed tomography) scan confirmed that the arrowhead tore through a major artery.
• Gostner also confirmed that Ötzi received a blow to the head.
Death • Forensic evidence indicated that he was shot in the back by a distant assailant at a lower elevaAon.
• He was then struck on the head and fell on his back, where he died.
• Finally, the murderer rolled Ötzi onto his front, with his arm folded under his body, and tugged the arrow shaP from where it was lodged his back.
• Arrow would have caused internal bleeding and a rapid, shock-‐related cardiac arrest.
Ötzi’s body and the evidence
• Hand • LeP hand has a number of parAally healed deep cuts, likely inflicted several days before death. • self-‐defence wounds and suggest he was involved in conflict. • Supports in part Splinder’s disaster theory (1995). Had a fight the valley and had fled into the mountains and was in the process of fashioning a longbow and quiver when he was killed.
• around 46 years of age. • Good condiAon for a man of his era. • Eyes blue • Stomach appeared empty • over 50 taaoos, created by rubbing charcoal into fine incisions.
• Possibly a form of pain relief
• Forensic botany: • Forensic botany found thirty different types of pollen in his intesAnes.
• Time of death is now thought to be Spring -‐ evidence pollen from the flowers of the hop hornbean tree.
• In 1994 DNA analysis links him to the living inhabitants of central Europe.
But wait, new evidence has
caused changes again!
Late 2009
• In 2009 Gostner suggested that they had confused the colon with the stomach.
• A full stomach conflicted with the view that Otzi was fleeing.
• In the iniAal invesAgaAon of the body a large gash was made across the lower torso (The Austrian window).
In late 2010 using these entry points and new technologies a
comprehensive autopsy took place.
The latest reconstrucAon of the Iceman
IniAal findings -‐ 2011
• Dark shadow in the skull an internal clot -‐ blow to the head from being hit or hieng the ground aPer being shot.
• CT scan – arrow pieced a major artery death almost immediate.
• Related to southern not central Europeans. • Chemical traces in his bones and teeth indicated he grew up northeast of Bolzano, possibly in the Isarco River Valley, and spent his adulthood in the Venosta Valley.
• Not fleeing – had a large and leisurely meal resAng in a spot protected from the wind.
• He was unaware of any danger. • ExaminaAon of genes now indicate he had brown hair and eyes.
• ParAally healed hand injury, suggesAve of a defensive wound from an earlier fight.
• Earliest known human infected by the bug that causes Lyme disease.
• Likely lactose intolerant.
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