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Otzi was my uncle. DNA is wonderful right? Never had a clue I was a bit Italian and to find out I'm a relative of Otzi via his maternal side was doubly surprising. He looked more like 75 than 45 though. Hard living = shorter lifespans. 45 in that era actually equaled about 75 in this era. An age no one was expected to reach. In fact, 45 would have been considered quite elderly. So to Uncle Otzi - you're forgiven, we understand why you've missed all the holiday dinner invitations. .
To me, and this pure conjecture. He was probably involved in some kinda war with a local tribe. No telling what or how many he himself killed finally vengeance was paid only the killers remains were not preserved. I dunno, but it's part of human history wars never stop.
The part where the ice man is called a fashionista is hilarious. It’s also cool that the shoes still worked today. Shows the ancients weren’t dumb, just different.
Even just surviving in their time required you to be an expert in many different things otherwise you'd end up eating a poison plant or starve the average person would've been a genius compared to our average person we just have easier access to information
@@finnmurphy9158 No, not really, back then it was rare to find tools made our of copper and most things were made of flint because it was easier to find and easier to turn into tools; and on the other hand, we have modern steel working and with that we can make tools that are literally designed to cut through copper, so in conclusion, no, they didn't have the same stuff as us
If no body they would assume he is still alive. Generally have to be missing for a long time before declared dead because can't find body. Ancient laws would vary by tribe though.
_It's obvious, Otzi had SEXED entire villages and their livestock and therefore a manhunt of the Alp's notorious, "Rudolf Vaselino" ensued. Otsi's Hollowed-Antler Fleshlight, team of Oxen and 2-ton Porn collection had obviously been procured._
People don’t realize how significant the copper axe really is, and the fact that it was left behind after he was killed. It was probably someone close to him who killed him and knew he couldn’t take the axe because everyone would know who it had belonged to. The wound on his hand was probably from the same people who killed him a couple days later, this would also explain why he had so few arrows as he probably used them in the earlier interaction. I think he was running into the mountains to escape when they caught up to him, an already weakened old man.
probably the shooters was so far away and had a telescope to confirm his death, and claim his bounty cause his a wanted man and his vertical line tattoos at his back confirms it how many men he slays
Otzi: Breaks several bones during very hard life, and is an old man for his time. Also Otzi: Think I'll go on an 80 mile round trip jaunt 10,000 feet up an icy cold mountain.
He didn't just go on a jaunt around the mountain. He had in his possession a knot of thongs in which each thong was tied in a different series of knots. This is a method of carrying a message. Otzi was a messenger.
4000 years ago, 45 years old is very old. He was very well equipped. The clothes, the shoes, the weapons are very sophisticated. The tattoos were very well done for little art tools they had at the time. The pattern must tell the story!
Not that old. The average life expectancy was skewed down by much higher infant mortality, and not as much by earlier death of those who survived to adulthood.
What if his back was the mapped terrain outlined. Spine being the valley and how many times he hiked up the mountain either side of it. Each with 4 lines maybe an elevation marking or how many times he hunted there? They never mentioned that on both of his thumbs webbing he had deep lacerations on both hands i wonder if he was held captive by another tribe and tortured or sacrificed?
@@albundy7133 and also disease/illnesses, but that doesn't mean that the actual physical ability/health of a 45 year old was any or much worse than today. He could very well still be fit, and probably more fit than avg. 45 year olds today
@@albundy7133 The average age of adult deaths is still around 35. I believe this man was an itinerant copper smelter who had a bag full of broken pieces of copper and maybe a finished piece or two which is what was stolen from him. Much more expensive than his axe and knife.
no they aren't much more expensive. Thats like saying the materials for a puma football boot are more expensive than the boot itself.@@matthewjohns1758
Imagine being called randomly by a group of scientists saying that your great great great great great great (x500) grandfather from the copper age was found in the Alps, giving them an insight to thousands of years in the past. That’s wild.
Let’s say each of our grandads & grandads before them lived on average 50 years (which could be an understatement) This would mean Otzi the iceman would’ve roamed the earth along side our 100th grandad, in the line of our male ancestry. A long time ago sure, but not as long as one would imagine. If we put the average life expectancy of our ancestral forefathers up 10 years from 50, we can sensibly bring the difference between ourselves and Otzi down from 100 grandads ago, to around 60-70 grandads/lifetimes ago.
He was with people he knew. He had a nice meal with them and then, the poisonous plant in the food. Good point above about not taking the copper axe because people would know who killed their leader.
Trichuris infestation is often asymptomatic and when it does have symptoms, it mostly manifests as nonspecific low-intensity abdominal pain and general weakness, which can also be caused by many other diseases. Even today, it's easy to misdiagnose it or miss it, unless a microscopic examination for parasites in the feces is requested and reveal the worm's characteristic eggs. Unlike large roundworms, Trichuris worms are tiny and almost transparent, and can easily go unnoticed even if eliminated in the feces. So, Ötzi certainly didn't know he had a worm to eventually treat.
@@thomasneedham1224, I have a medical degree and additionally live in a tropical country where parasitic infestations are common. There are many kinds of parasitic worms and Trichuris infestation is not particularly nasty. The worms usually stay inside the guts, are only rarely eliminated in the feces (their eggs are constantly being shed, but they are microscopic and are not visible to the naked eye), and even when worms appear in the stools, they're so tiny and translucent that they usually go unnoticed. The symptoms (when they are present) are rarely intense and never specific, the kind of malaise and occasional mild pain that was likely a part of life at that time regardless of whether a person was infected with Trichuris or not.
1:35 - Chapter 1 - The discovery 4:15 - Chapter 2 - What we learned from the body 7:00 - Chapter 3 - How healthy was he ? 8:55 - Chapter 4 - The last meal 10:30 - Chapter 5 - The tattoos 13:40 - Chapter 6 - What's in the bag ? 16:15 - Chapter 7 - The coldest case 17:50 - Chapter 8 - Who owns Otzi ?
3:05 - "With little regard for future geopolitical sensibilities, Otzi decided to die right next to somewhat of a controversial border between Austria and Italy." That's cold, man. ;)
IKR! Why do I love that little dude so much? He’s brought so much to this world and we don’t know anything about his personality. He could have been a creep for all we know, but somehow I don’t think so. So grateful for him... we now have so many answered questions. Merry holidays 🎄
You left out the most important thing about his copper ax, it set back copper in Europe 1000 yrs! Before Otzi's discovery it was thought copper smelting in Europe started around 2000BC.
_and to think if that was me, they would've found my "Hollowed-Antler Fleshlight" in the bag and remains of the team of Oxen that was hauling my 2-ton Pron collection._
Absolutely right! I can’t remember what herb they used to use to get rid of parasites, but it was one of those that would kill you if you ate too much. It’s on the website for the pharmacopoeia attached to the Mütter Museum at Penn State. Maybe it was the same thing? It looked similar.
I don't know if anybody remembers this, but at the time the Iceman originally made headlines - before they realised he was thousands of years old - there was a story about an Austrian woman who saw the remains and insisted that it was the body of her missing husband. I clearly remember her saying that she had "positively identified" the corpse. I always wanted to know what sort of guy her husband was that she saw the Iceman's face and said "Yep... That's Henry." I also always wondered why there was no follow-up on the case.
I was in the 4th grade when this happened. I was absolutely enraptured. There’s very little I don’t know about this discovery. Thank you so very much Biographics...looking forward to this one!
Imagine if someone told you your dead body would be preserved and used thousands of years later to learn about your society while being subjected to all sorts of totally alien technology.
They'd be absolutely puzzled by mine. And I'd do my very best to mess as much with them as possible... And my general health, my TBI and all the Leda I have to take would make them think up some amazing theories 😂🤣
I've been to Bolzano last year and visited the Ötzi Museum, where you can look at him through a small window behind a large steel wall. The feeling I had when I saw his body IRL was very special and it was definetly worth it to visit the museum in general.
I kinda dont want to give these fuckers money after pulling off an "yeah go ahead and invest time and money to research this, we just wanna put the fella in a box to look at for 10 buckaronies"
This is a great idea. I like listening to stories in the field of forensic archaeology, where information about a certain ancient mummy or skeleton is pieced together by experts who make educated deductions based on even the smallest evidence found in and around the bodies.
@@Monnique23 I find BBC's History Cold Case to be very sensible, and the team of experts featured in the series approach the subjects with not just professional methods, but also a rare kind of warm, very "human" touch.
He sounds pretty advanced for the time he came from, based on the description of him and his clothes and tools you could have just as easily been talking about a fur trapper from the 1800s.
Charcoal is used nowadays on infected wounds, as an odour deterrent and to absorb part of the infection, thus aiding healing. The pain from the wounds themselves may have distracted from the joint pain. Or perhaps, if they knew about charcoal's effects on wounds to some degree, believed that putting it into the skin near affected areas may help heal the internal problems. Or maybe the tattoos were something else intirely, this is all guesswork afterall and sometimes ancient people, like modern people, aren't as logical as we like to believe.
I find it unbelievably amazing that we have evolved as a species to be able to gather all this information from such an old corpse, science is awesome! Edit: Thanks for the likes you beautiful people!
I find it unbelievably amazing that you think we're one tiny bit more evolved than Otzi. In every possibly way except for technology, Otzi was our superior. Science many be awesome, but scientists are just plain old humans, and they screw up as much as any of us. If you believe much of anything science says, you aren't very old.
To the folks so focused on the "10" pounds thing, the captions read 110. Simon made a simple error. Anyway, great video, always felt he was such an interesting find
@BigDaddyCool42 Not when the video was posted, it was almost every comment and since I use captions I happened to see it is all, and as I was going to comment anyway about how interesting I found this, why not? :) Have a good one.
Doesn't it belong to the finder tho aka the person not 2 fucking countries it belongs to the people who found him originally not 2 random stupid countries no offence but they should have no claim to the dead body belongs to the human who found it God rabbit foxy stop tricking raging Shut up lolbit I can rage if I want - lolbit and funtime foxy
The arrowheads were interchangeable between the shafts because the heads were way harder to make. I shoot a compound bow and I only keep two broad heads with a dozen arrows in my case.
That's not true though..... Primative arrow heads were too hard to make just to risk loosing them while hunting if they were to come loose..... Plus the tar holding them to the shaft with the leather straps would make interchangeable arrow heads impossible.
This is my favorite Biographics yet! I was embarking on grad school when Otzi was found. It's been inspirational to watch (and sometimes get to apply!) newer molecular techniques that have been used for his study. The cherry on top is hearing Simon's mellifluous voice gather it all together in one presentation. More like this please! Aren't there any Peruvian, Inuit, or other mummies with some framework on which to build? There's always the bog people.
I am kind of late viewing this, so somebody(s) may have already posted a solution as to why Ötzi had poisonous bracken fern in his stomach. Bracken fern if eaten when they are in a very juvenile stage of growth (just popped out of the ground in early spring) are called “fiddle heads”. They are very short and furled tightly. They are quite safe and edible in this stage of their development.
imagine being the people who found it, if it was me I'd be really really terrified finding a corpse like that but I would be really fascinated when I found out it was over 4000 years old
This is the best summary I’ve seen yet of Otzi! It is amazing how much we learned about his life 5000 years ago, and how much we did not know before. Condor Knife and Steel makes a high quality replica of his flint knife with a steel blade and primitive type leather sheath.
To be fair, those are hostile mountains. My great grandmother died out in the cold there. My dad's dad's family is from this village called Pinzolo, on the Italian side of the Alps.
Yes, I love pre-history videos! I'd never thought I'd get to see a pre-history Biographics, because obviously it's close to impossible. Whenever Simon says he's going to do something a little different, I know we're in for something good.
I think otzi's tattoo are some kind of tribal healing runes. On his areas that affected him the most. Kinda like constant pain relief from the gods kinda thing. Well I'm assuming gods. PRobably his own tribe killed him. He was probably a high ranking person. Lost an internal power struggle and this is the end result. Or he stole the axe and his tribe or owners of the axe hunted him down and tried to take it back but due to where he fell... yeah they didnt get it back.
He may have been a bandit haunting the mountain trade routes. His knife had two types of human blood that was not his blood. Or he may have been a surgeon.
When they found Izzi (as he was called) I was in my mid 20s and tried to live like a primitive person; made my own bows, arrows, clothes, etc. I felt there was information about life that could only be found that way. So he meant a lot to me. I was so infatuated. I remember a decade later I was on a plane when I read that he had an arrowhead stuck in him. How could these experts not know this for a decade? How could they be stumped by an antler used to resharpen his flint? Turns out there is information only learned by being primitive. I'm glad I did that back then.
Well... We are talking about a 6000 year old mummy not a fresh corpse. To find the arrowtip originally they would have had to perform a proper autopsy but they obviously didn't want to damage the corpse beyond just obtaining a few samples (besides, there was originally no reason to assume that he had been killed when he could just as well either have frozen to death or died from a heart attack). So they didn't really find the arrowhead until they had a non-intrusive means to actually scan his body. Primitive methodology might have found a few things earlier but it also would have ruined dozends of other things. Besides "only learned by being primitive" my foot. They figured all the stuff out in the end, it just took them a moment. It's not like they were sitting on the antler thing for months. The thing that puzzled them was less the antler itself than the wooden casing that made it look like a pencil.
In my opinion, this is the best episode of Bio Graphics i've ever watched! I learned a lot and I find it fascinating that the guy has relatives alive to day!!! Thanks and hello from Québec Canada!
The fact that they found several things that are unique to that time period on a guy that walked around the alps is pretty weird, considering how remote it is and how old this guy was (26 was the life expectancy back then, which means he was almost DOUBLE the life expectancy). All that tells me is that we barely don't know anything from that time period, it's just wide-spread speculations from the few things we have found.
If life expectancy for that period involves all the children that died before they reach the age of 5, then he wasnt that old. The children mortality in those times was very high. However, if you managed to become an adult, it wasnt that uncommon to reach his age, I believe.
@@ChuckNorrisCanSeeU You're right. The 20-30 year average is because of the high child mortality. Once you got passed that (and child birth), it wasn't that uncommon throughout history to reach 60-70 years (or older).
And a million people watching you on their devices all over the world, who knows maybe I die and they find me in the next 6k years and they put me in a museum
Imagine still seeing stuff while being dead, and to be suddenly surprised about people seeing you 6000 years later, but can’t express it in any way to them
I love how a lot of the comments are "10lbs alive?!" Cuz I had to go back several times to check myself and started laughing every time. Oh. Simon, I love you man. Man, he sure let himself go when he died smh
This individual moved into his mid-forties in one of the toughest terrains on Earth. He was healthy he was strong he was a warrior he was smart he was capable he was a truly inspiring and inspirational individual.
Imagine people finding a body of this time 5,000 years from now. " Turns out this speciment had a very poor diet of McDonald's, GMOs, and had suffered from diabetes, heart disease, and highly allergic to gluten.
This was a great video Simon, very captivating and more interesting than most other biographics on this channel. It's unbelievable how much info the scientists have been able to discover just from his body.
I remember reading books about this guy when I was probably 5. I was so obsessed with this story, and until this day I had completely forgotten about it.
There is a theory about the man's fate I find plausible, which is, that he was a man of importance (→expensive clothes, expensive axe) who, for some reason had to run from his enemies, and thus, fled up high into the mountains, which he must have known quite well. Only, his enemies got him (→arrow head in his body), but left the corpse and did _not_ take any of his possessions, because if they had run around with his stuff, people would have recognized them. So after the kill, his killers just went down to the valley and acted as if nothing happened … and over five thousand years later, his body was found, at a time, when the great pyramids of Giza were as far in the future as space flight from medieval knights. Amazing. There is, of course, also a more light hearted approach to the matter, because people were wondering, which nationality the man was from. Couldn't have been Italian, for he carried tools for work, couldn't have been Austrian, because he carried no Schnaps, so maybe he was a German tourist, because who else would walk up the mountains in sandals…
There was an old joke about from where he was, -> austrian on a shopping trip to italy, -> german, who else would wear sandals in high mountains, ->swiss, the glacier was faster and overtook him... (At that time southern austrians went to italy on every occasion for shopping, lots of german tourists in the alps got themselves into trouble because of wrong footwear, and the swiss way of speaking high german is made fun of for beeing slow...)
Otzi could not relate to the number 100 let alone 5000. In his world everything was smaller. The concept of fame would also not have existed. People only knew other people in their own community.
I feel like the idea of being discovered, then realizing he had in fact been murdered, would be distressing to the ice man. But if he's anything like modern men, he would've likely been at least curious. That's my guess anyway. Still, what an interesting historical figure.
i remember having a discussion about this in school. when people die, and we burry them, we of course dress them in fancy clothes, make them look nice and respectable, and then we put them in a nice casket. it really doesn't reflect much about our culture or our personalities, and that's a big problem that archaeologists and historians have when they study mumified remains that are so old. because even back then, there were rituals for burrying people, and mumified remains don't tell much about who that person was in society, or what the culture was like. however, the ice man had a more natural death, and we discovered him as he would have been in any other day of his life. by studying his clothes and his items, we disgussed how we could learn more about what his everyday life might have been like.
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Otzi was my uncle. DNA is wonderful right? Never had a clue I was a bit Italian and to find out I'm a relative of Otzi via his maternal side was doubly surprising. He looked more like 75 than 45 though. Hard living = shorter lifespans. 45 in that era actually equaled about 75 in this era. An age no one was expected to reach. In fact, 45 would have been considered quite elderly. So to Uncle Otzi - you're forgiven, we understand why you've missed all the holiday dinner invitations. .
5:10 i really doubt he weighed 10lbs.
It sounded to me like an edit error. I believe it was meant to say "110 lbs"
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Otzi’s teachers: “You’ll never amount to anything.”
Otzi: Gimme time, you’ll see
To me, and this pure conjecture. He was probably involved in some kinda war with a local tribe. No telling what or how many he himself killed finally vengeance was paid only the killers remains were not preserved. I dunno, but it's part of human history wars never stop.
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Steven Watson ~ I didn’t say anything about war. But yeah, sounds good.
I was just spoofing.
Brilliant! 🤣 ✌️
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Everyone... I know, I know... My bad: 110 pounds. Not 10 pounds.
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You are stealing my likes by pinning that correction.
Yeah....I'm 5'2"....and weigh 157 lbs.....oh oh.......
Ah, I thought maybe you meant to say 10 stone...
No problem.
Wasn’t your fault Simon. You were reading the cue cards your assistant put together. Now go fire that guy.
The part where the ice man is called a fashionista is hilarious. It’s also cool that the shoes still worked today. Shows the ancients weren’t dumb, just different.
we are ancient for future peoples, study said our IQ will gradually increased till our smartest person become future average iq
They weren't dumb, they just worked with what they had and they were very good at it.
Even just surviving in their time required you to be an expert in many different things otherwise you'd end up eating a poison plant or starve the average person would've been a genius compared to our average person we just have easier access to information
@@terrencefairbairn3787 they had the same stuff as us
@@finnmurphy9158 No, not really, back then it was rare to find tools made our of copper and most things were made of flint because it was easier to find and easier to turn into tools; and on the other hand, we have modern steel working and with that we can make tools that are literally designed to cut through copper, so in conclusion, no, they didn't have the same stuff as us
The longest running champion of hide and seek
That's pretty good lol 😂😂😂
@Marcus Zyker *Snatches Trophy from Osama Bin-Laden*
Ötzi and go seek😂
Hicx 16 your ruined the vibe
Noope db coopers the champ, no one was even lookin for poor old otzi
Well, from all the true crime documentaries I've seen, I can ascertain that Ötzi was murdered for his insurance money
If no body they would assume he is still alive. Generally have to be missing for a long time before declared dead because can't find body. Ancient laws would vary by tribe though.
Have we ruled out that this was a neolithic drive-by shooting gone wrong and that Ötzi wasn't just at the wrong place at the wrong time?
I thought it was his yak
Brian Mino how was they supposed to find his relatives?
@@baldy4563 DNA is a crazy thing
"He only had eleven pairs of ribs..." what a lucky fellow
He truly had a good life.
Only the bois would understand.
MaxieMack yum
@Bodger the Badger not prince but marylyn Manson
He was pulling a Marilyn Manson
@Bodger the Badger He just wanted his own extra time and.... kiss
Ötzi was killed because he was too OP for his time and his enemies wanted his legendary loot.
I vote this top comment.
but they left all loot there
_It's obvious, Otzi had SEXED entire villages and their livestock and therefore a manhunt of the Alp's notorious, "Rudolf Vaselino" ensued. Otsi's Hollowed-Antler Fleshlight, team of Oxen and 2-ton Porn collection had obviously been procured._
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT Otzi was a gamer and that's why he was offed.
@@ashkitt7719 _Just from the footage, it does seem like he had some form of Thumb-Palsey from a PS-3000BC controller._
When you forget about your 5000+ hours played Skyrim character.
Those numbers are insultingly low
@@ivanskas6983 if those numbers are low then i don't wanna see yours
@@ivanskas6983 my guy spent 30+ years playing skyrim I guess
Wowww I just did the math and what I said was so wrong
@@timytumper bruh. One year is around 8k hours good job
People don’t realize how significant the copper axe really is, and the fact that it was left behind after he was killed. It was probably someone close to him who killed him and knew he couldn’t take the axe because everyone would know who it had belonged to. The wound on his hand was probably from the same people who killed him a couple days later, this would also explain why he had so few arrows as he probably used them in the earlier interaction. I think he was running into the mountains to escape when they caught up to him, an already weakened old man.
probably the shooters was so far away and had a telescope to confirm his death, and claim his bounty cause his a wanted man and his vertical line tattoos at his back confirms it how many men he slays
ACID .....well that explains your name
I really like this explanation, thanks.
@@WINDOWS94198 They didnt have telescopes back then
Men who saught vengeance on ortiz for laying the rod to thier women and getting them preg.
Otzi: Breaks several bones during very hard life, and is an old man for his time.
Also Otzi: Think I'll go on an 80 mile round trip jaunt 10,000 feet up an icy cold mountain.
clear the head a bit
@@gregorhaines5595 Maybe eat some venison, a good hearty meal I'd say
Maybe he went there to die
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I like the idea there is some epic story of revenge combat and betrayal that put him on the run.
He didn't just go on a jaunt around the mountain. He had in his possession a knot of thongs in which each thong was tied in a different series of knots. This is a method of carrying a message. Otzi was a messenger.
Imagine getting a call from the Italian goverment to tell you they found a murdered family memember of yours and he's 4000 years old. 😂
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Actually all his relatives were in Austria. Guess Ötzi was an Austrian~
@@belisarius6949 Really? I heard they were on some island in the Mediterranean.
@@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 Biographics said in the video they found 11 relatives in Tirol.
@@belisarius6949 Okay.
He lived 45 years 4k years ago. Not bad for someone with all the illnesses that he had. Tough guy
That was only a bit above average for people back then (both the number of injuries and their severity and his age)
I’m over here wondering what a 5’2 10 pound man would look like 🤣
just a giant stick man lol
He was 5’2 110 pounds. Before I looked it up I was wondering that to and said no way that can be true.
5'2" 10 pound man would have been dehydrated most of body weight is water.
@@peterv1318 5'2" and 110 pound was not that unusual a Figure Skater or Gymnast about that size is close to that weight.
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4000 years ago, 45 years old is very old. He was very well equipped. The clothes, the shoes, the weapons are very sophisticated. The tattoos were very well done for little art tools they had at the time. The pattern must tell the story!
Not that old.
The average life expectancy was skewed down by much higher infant mortality, and not as much by earlier death of those who survived to adulthood.
What if his back was the mapped terrain outlined. Spine being the valley and how many times he hiked up the mountain either side of it. Each with 4 lines maybe an elevation marking or how many times he hunted there? They never mentioned that on both of his thumbs webbing he had deep lacerations on both hands i wonder if he was held captive by another tribe and tortured or sacrificed?
@@albundy7133 and also disease/illnesses, but that doesn't mean that the actual physical ability/health of a 45 year old was any or much worse than today. He could very well still be fit, and probably more fit than avg. 45 year olds today
@@albundy7133 The average age of adult deaths is still around 35. I believe this man was an itinerant copper smelter who had a bag full of broken pieces of copper and maybe a finished piece or two which is what was stolen from him. Much more expensive than his axe and knife.
no they aren't much more expensive. Thats like saying the materials for a puma football boot are more expensive than the boot itself.@@matthewjohns1758
Imagine being called randomly by a group of scientists saying that your great great great great great great (x500) grandfather from the copper age was found in the Alps, giving them an insight to thousands of years in the past. That’s wild.
Let’s say each of our grandads & grandads before them lived on average 50 years (which could be an understatement)
This would mean Otzi the iceman would’ve roamed the earth along side our 100th grandad, in the line of our male ancestry.
A long time ago sure, but not as long as one would imagine. If we put the average life expectancy of our ancestral forefathers up 10 years from 50, we can sensibly bring the difference between ourselves and Otzi down from 100 grandads ago, to around 60-70 grandads/lifetimes ago.
@@TheMountainMan001 no, let's not say that, because it is ridiculous. people lived til 30. otzi was on borrowed time, you dimwit.
I would demand that I am receive an inheritance of his clothes and axe!
Heavily tatted up and “liked his leather” Sounds more like an OG Hell’s Angel
@funkmasterjee If anything it's be badgers. The Alps are too far south for wolverines.
For the poisonous plant found in his stomach: is it possible that he maybe ate it as a poison medicine for the worm in his intestines you mentioned?
He was with people he knew. He had a nice meal with them and then, the poisonous plant in the food. Good point above about not taking the copper axe because people would know who killed their leader.
Trichuris infestation is often asymptomatic and when it does have symptoms, it mostly manifests as nonspecific low-intensity abdominal pain and general weakness, which can also be caused by many other diseases. Even today, it's easy to misdiagnose it or miss it, unless a microscopic examination for parasites in the feces is requested and reveal the worm's characteristic eggs. Unlike large roundworms, Trichuris worms are tiny and almost transparent, and can easily go unnoticed even if eliminated in the feces. So, Ötzi certainly didn't know he had a worm to eventually treat.
@@goytabr how do you know that? I once saw some tiny worms in my stank.
@@thomasneedham1224, I have a medical degree and additionally live in a tropical country where parasitic infestations are common. There are many kinds of parasitic worms and Trichuris infestation is not particularly nasty. The worms usually stay inside the guts, are only rarely eliminated in the feces (their eggs are constantly being shed, but they are microscopic and are not visible to the naked eye), and even when worms appear in the stools, they're so tiny and translucent that they usually go unnoticed. The symptoms (when they are present) are rarely intense and never specific, the kind of malaise and occasional mild pain that was likely a part of life at that time regardless of whether a person was infected with Trichuris or not.
I thot ferns are tropical. 🤔
1:35 - Chapter 1 - The discovery
4:15 - Chapter 2 - What we learned from the body
7:00 - Chapter 3 - How healthy was he ?
8:55 - Chapter 4 - The last meal
10:30 - Chapter 5 - The tattoos
13:40 - Chapter 6 - What's in the bag ?
16:15 - Chapter 7 - The coldest case
17:50 - Chapter 8 - Who owns Otzi ?
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its amazing how his bloodline survived
My dad is related to him according to 23andme, and we're danish!
@FrozenVirus Everyone is related to everyone whose kids had kids if you go far back enough.
@William Linley yes
@@idapedersen5490 I'm pretty sure that everyone in europe is related to him...
@@Spoontamer4 he was a known bachelor and slinged his slong whenever he had the opportunity. An absolute legend🕺🏿
3:05 - "With little regard for future geopolitical sensibilities, Otzi decided to die right next to somewhat of a controversial border between Austria and Italy."
That's cold, man. ;)
Ice cold
That's the way I want to go.
Legend
'That's cold'
I see what you did there
Who could have imagined this would have consequences 5000 years later.
"Go Home, Larry, you're drunk..."
30,000 Years later...
lol XDDD
lary is one of those dads who went to store and never came back XD
😂🤣😂 that made me chuckle.
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Rest in peace Ötzi, and thank you for contributing to our understanding of your time.
That’s why he wore his best pelt and brought his fanciest copper that day
You are welcome Kimberlay
IKR! Why do I love that little dude so much? He’s brought so much to this world and we don’t know anything about his personality. He could have been a creep for all we know, but somehow I don’t think so. So grateful for him... we now have so many answered questions. Merry holidays 🎄
Cool to see the "binging with babish" guy branching out to other things...
;)
Also vsauce michael
But the Binging with Babish guy is a different person. They're not the same, maybe they look similar...
Lady Gold R/wooooosh.
You left out the most important thing about his copper ax, it set back copper in Europe 1000 yrs! Before Otzi's discovery it was thought copper smelting in Europe started around 2000BC.
Pretty interesting. Heard of him before but I did not know he actually had living descendants. That was interesting to learn!
By the way the thumbnail picture looks, his living relative is Sean Penn.
i know you probably wont believe me but i live near his icegrave and my neighbour is actually a descendant of ötzi, like a dna tested one☺️
*Brad Pitt has an Otsi tatto
Charles Gaskin I was thinking Harvey Keitel
That was a pretty interesting fact actually! I would love to see some of the same research of Egyptian mummies
Wim Hof: “The cold is my teacher. Ötzi: “Hold my axe.”
He looks like Wim Hof
Wim hof is his previous life.
This meme format is as old and dead as the ice man
Bob Sacamano 😂 😊😅😂🤣😆Hold my meme.
"Hold my ass" more like it
“Symbolic” tattoos, that man had a body count wore it like a trophy.
Nah back in BC the pagans would mark themselves in mourning when their loved ones died. Although the location is strange
Tear drops on my homie , think he caught some bodies
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@Age Restrictions it means he was a warrior who marked his body for every kill
Neolithic tramp stamp!! He was most likely a bar fly turning occasional tricks at the local watering hole.
The tattoos are where he had injuries or wear. My money is on medical treatment.
Just think imagine your body being examined over 5,000 years from now incredible
I hope no one is going to examine mine, they'd think the world had gone mad 😂
That's a weird and dangerous thought. Like great for science and all but no doubt I'll be unhealthy by their standards 😂😂
_and to think if that was me, they would've found my "Hollowed-Antler Fleshlight" in the bag and remains of the team of Oxen that was hauling my 2-ton Pron collection._
As long as my corpse is in the best dancing pose
All the drugs .. oh my
The braken might have been their way to get rid of parasites.
Didn't work then, did it? That's typical of the Homeopathic Bronze Age 4 u.
Although 2 b fair, it WAS curing him, until death complicated things.
Absolutely right! I can’t remember what herb they used to use to get rid of parasites, but it was one of those that would kill you if you ate too much. It’s on the website for the pharmacopoeia attached to the Mütter Museum at Penn State. Maybe it was the same thing? It looked similar.
Either that or he used it to speed up or numb his death
@Abdulkarim Elnaas Well, except for Marijuana
I don't know if anybody remembers this, but at the time the Iceman originally made headlines - before they realised he was thousands of years old - there was a story about an Austrian woman who saw the remains and insisted that it was the body of her missing husband. I clearly remember her saying that she had "positively identified" the corpse.
I always wanted to know what sort of guy her husband was that she saw the Iceman's face and said "Yep... That's Henry."
I also always wondered why there was no follow-up on the case.
Desperate people don't think clearly
Can you give a link please?
I was in the 4th grade when this happened. I was absolutely enraptured. There’s very little I don’t know about this discovery.
Thank you so very much Biographics...looking forward to this one!
5th why do I feel old now lol
he used to give me nightmares when i was really young watching documentaries about him lol
Can you tell me how much he weighed in life, obviously it wasn’t 10lbs
Kadeo123321 - he meant to say 110 lbs. Which is what the assumed estimate is.
@@Kadeo-ms6qw
Roughly 110 but that's only an estimate given time frozen
Imagine if someone told you your dead body would be preserved and used thousands of years later to learn about your society while being subjected to all sorts of totally alien technology.
I'd want to die in a weird pose to mess with them.
First thought.
@@TheOmegagoldfish Yeah, so that you don't fit in the scanners and all the other equipment.
They'd be absolutely puzzled by mine. And I'd do my very best to mess as much with them as possible... And my general health, my TBI and all the Leda I have to take would make them think up some amazing theories 😂🤣
The bodies that are left in the Everest mountains might be examined thousands of years from now by Future civilisations
yeah that is very creepy
I've been to Bolzano last year and visited the Ötzi Museum, where you can look at him through a small window behind a large steel wall.
The feeling I had when I saw his body IRL was very special and it was definetly worth it to visit the museum in general.
I kinda dont want to give these fuckers money after pulling off an "yeah go ahead and invest time and money to research this, we just wanna put the fella in a box to look at for 10 buckaronies"
They still do research on him and the museum is definitely worth visiting as it contains various exhibitions about the whole of the copper age
This is a great idea. I like listening to stories in the field of forensic archaeology, where information about a certain ancient mummy or skeleton is pieced together by experts who make educated deductions based on even the smallest evidence found in and around the bodies.
Do you have any series/documentaries you could recommend? I watched 'mummy forensics' here on UA-cam and I crave more.
@@Monnique23 I find BBC's History Cold Case to be very sensible, and the team of experts featured in the series approach the subjects with not just professional methods, but also a rare kind of warm, very "human" touch.
@@chickendrawsdogs3343 Thank you for taking your time to answer, I will check it out.
Yeah I second this. I live for forensic archeology stuff
Otzi is thinking, "Imma die right here so the Austrians and Italians can fight over my body".
"Don't scatter my ashes ,I'll just walk up there.
He sounds pretty advanced for the time he came from, based on the description of him and his clothes and tools you could have just as easily been talking about a fur trapper from the 1800s.
The devil's in the details. While by no means poorly-made for its time, Otzi's gear was much, *much* more primitive than the fur trapper's.
@@stormisuedonym4599 7000 years more primitive tho?
To much red dead redemption for you
@@jake3768 technology doesn't grow like that, different people come up with similar ideas.
Except for the Copper Age tools and no gun
Otzi: *last online 5,300 years ago*
Charcoal is used nowadays on infected wounds, as an odour deterrent and to absorb part of the infection, thus aiding healing. The pain from the wounds themselves may have distracted from the joint pain. Or perhaps, if they knew about charcoal's effects on wounds to some degree, believed that putting it into the skin near affected areas may help heal the internal problems. Or maybe the tattoos were something else intirely, this is all guesswork afterall and sometimes ancient people, like modern people, aren't as logical as we like to believe.
I find it unbelievably amazing that we have evolved as a species to be able to gather all this information from such an old corpse, science is awesome!
Edit: Thanks for the likes you beautiful people!
MrIvanbeats meanwhile we also have antivaxxers and flat-earthers... 🤷🏻♂️
Not evolved, enlightened.
Yeah and we can’t even get a test for corona virus
JGfrm BrooKLynnn you are a straight hater lmao smh “we” means human beings and our technology. Why so salty?
I find it unbelievably amazing that you think we're one tiny bit more evolved than Otzi. In every possibly way except for technology, Otzi was our superior.
Science many be awesome, but scientists are just plain old humans, and they screw up as much as any of us. If you believe much of anything science says, you aren't very old.
Otzi is like a real life version of those cool things you find in skyrim that are unmarked but tell a story
The place where he was found was fitting as well
@@J.Kunda98 Just needs a random dragon bossfight lol
5'2" and weighed around 10 pounds. Float like a feather sting like a bee. Jeebus
Somewhere out there, there's a frozen Neanderthal or Denisovan, I just want to be alive if and when it's found.
You're in luck - he's currently in office
@@CardinalTreehouse Lmao! Indeed he is.
Siberia !!!
Go to Australia and look at an aboriginal I think it's the closest thing alive today
@Jon Bjornssen And you're salty about a comment on UA-cam! Lmao, Orange man has very sensitive fans
To the folks so focused on the "10" pounds thing, the captions read 110. Simon made a simple error.
Anyway, great video, always felt he was such an interesting find
@BigDaddyCool42 Not when the video was posted, it was almost every comment and since I use captions I happened to see it is all, and as I was going to comment anyway about how interesting I found this, why not? :)
Have a good one.
BigDaddyCool42 You’d be surprised dude
@filiolus Thanks for being a helping hand in the education of others 🙏 have a blessed day :)
@@khalifimamu998 Thank you :), have a wonderful day yourself.
Simple error, yes, but the huge error was in using imperial units instead of proper SI units
person:*finds dead body from a man who lived long ago*
Country's:"the dead man belongs to me"
Yeah they want that sweet corpse cash when they display him in a museum.... for scientific purpose I guess
lol even better "the 5000 year old mummy was austrian/italian" ridicolous
Tirol is culturally german. South Tirol is currently occupied by Italy, but doesnt really belong to it.
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Doesn't it belong to the finder tho aka the person not 2 fucking countries it belongs to the people who found him originally not 2 random stupid countries no offence but they should have no claim to the dead body belongs to the human who found it
God rabbit foxy stop tricking raging
Shut up lolbit I can rage if I want - lolbit and funtime foxy
The arrowheads were interchangeable between the shafts because the heads were way harder to make. I shoot a compound bow and I only keep two broad heads with a dozen arrows in my case.
Were the Arrow -Heads Flint or Copper?
That's not true though..... Primative arrow heads were too hard to make just to risk loosing them while hunting if they were to come loose..... Plus the tar holding them to the shaft with the leather straps would make interchangeable arrow heads impossible.
This is my favorite Biographics yet! I was embarking on grad school when Otzi was found. It's been inspirational to watch (and sometimes get to apply!) newer molecular techniques that have been used for his study. The cherry on top is hearing Simon's mellifluous voice gather it all together in one presentation. More like this please! Aren't there any Peruvian, Inuit, or other mummies with some framework on which to build? There's always the bog people.
Ötzi looks like he'd have cool campfire stories to tell.
5:08 I can't be the only one that totally noticed that he said he weighed 10 lb in life I'm sure he didn't mean to say pounds but it was still funny
He probably meant to say 100.
Considering the narrator's British accent, he probably meant "10 stone" or about 140 pounds...about right for a burly 5"2" male...
thankyou for pointing that out i repeated that part of the video so much thinking i just misheard him say that
This is why I'm reading the comments after I heard that.
I noticed as well, it was very confusing haha. He actually weighed 110 pounds, it's in the subtitles
I am kind of late viewing this, so somebody(s) may have already posted a solution as to why Ötzi had poisonous bracken fern in his stomach. Bracken fern if eaten when they are in a very juvenile stage of growth (just popped out of the ground in early spring) are called “fiddle heads”. They are very short and furled tightly. They are quite safe and edible in this stage of their development.
imagine being the people who found it, if it was me I'd be really really terrified finding a corpse like that but I would be really fascinated when I found out it was over 4000 years old
Ötzi was probably heading over the mountains on the way to the Oktoberfest.
@EbberDeeMills count me in...
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Yep, and some druken, roudy Germans shot him with an arrow...cuz he was an Italian mob guy
Oh so that's why he brought his satanic goat coat
Me in 2019: Eating chips on my couch
Ötzi 5'000 years ago: On a diet
He was a survivor, a smart man. Living 45 years, 5k years ago is nothing short of outatanding.
This is the best summary I’ve seen yet of Otzi! It is amazing how much we learned about his life 5000 years ago, and how much we did not know before. Condor Knife and Steel makes a high quality replica of his flint knife with a steel blade and primitive type leather sheath.
To be fair, those are hostile mountains. My great grandmother died out in the cold there. My dad's dad's family is from this village called Pinzolo, on the Italian side of the Alps.
He wasn't killed by the mountain
No, it sounds like he was murdered. All I'm saying is that, yes, it's dangerous out there if you get caught in the snow.
While it is true, the time Ötzi lived was during a warmth period, so it was warmer than today.
Thanks!
Hears “10 pounds”
Goes to comments to see if anyone else noticed.
I think the only person who DIDN'T notice was me ;)
I am thinking there is no reason to read more comments because that has made up most the comments so far.
We noticed. I was trying to do the math on how he gained 10 lbs after death. The correction is why I scrolled down. Now I'm satisfied.
I just assumed he meant to say 10 stone and accidentally said pounds.
@@Biographics All the comments these little slips of the tongue generate don't hurt either... ;)
Ötzi was 160 centimetres (5 ft 3 in) tall, weighed about 50 kilograms (110 lb)* WIKIPEDIA
Fucking thank you.
Or almost ten stone.
Bruhhh 👏🏾
Lol
It's true, people were shorter back in the day.
Imagine this guy dying and his final instinct is to do a Dab.
Stop
Truly ahead of his time...
Yes, I love pre-history videos! I'd never thought I'd get to see a pre-history Biographics, because obviously it's close to impossible. Whenever Simon says he's going to do something a little different, I know we're in for something good.
Really loved this one. Had me at the edge of my seat the whole time. Really interesting information. Thank you
I think otzi's tattoo are some kind of tribal healing runes. On his areas that affected him the most. Kinda like constant pain relief from the gods kinda thing. Well I'm assuming gods. PRobably his own tribe killed him. He was probably a high ranking person. Lost an internal power struggle and this is the end result.
Or he stole the axe and his tribe or owners of the axe hunted him down and tried to take it back but due to where he fell... yeah they didnt get it back.
He may have been a bandit haunting the mountain trade routes. His knife had two types of human blood that was not his blood. Or he may have been a surgeon.
When they found Izzi (as he was called) I was in my mid 20s and tried to live like a primitive person; made my own bows, arrows, clothes, etc. I felt there was information about life that could only be found that way. So he meant a lot to me. I was so infatuated. I remember a decade later I was on a plane when I read that he had an arrowhead stuck in him. How could these experts not know this for a decade? How could they be stumped by an antler used to resharpen his flint? Turns out there is information only learned by being primitive. I'm glad I did that back then.
So very right.
Well... We are talking about a 6000 year old mummy not a fresh corpse. To find the arrowtip originally they would have had to perform a proper autopsy but they obviously didn't want to damage the corpse beyond just obtaining a few samples (besides, there was originally no reason to assume that he had been killed when he could just as well either have frozen to death or died from a heart attack). So they didn't really find the arrowhead until they had a non-intrusive means to actually scan his body.
Primitive methodology might have found a few things earlier but it also would have ruined dozends of other things.
Besides "only learned by being primitive" my foot. They figured all the stuff out in the end, it just took them a moment. It's not like they were sitting on the antler thing for months. The thing that puzzled them was less the antler itself than the wooden casing that made it look like a pencil.
Hernando Malinche you fr that you think only the amazon and Congo r places you can only live primitive?
perhaps because they were treating the corpse as careful as possible and didnt want to xray it at that point or something like that
You did a form of experimental archaeology! Pretty cool.
My man's didn't stay strapped, and thus he got clapped
🏅 Here is your stupid comment award. You earned it!
Nah he kept the strap, he was just caught lacking
As they say, “Don’t bring a knife to a bow and arrow fight.”
He was caught slippin so he got capped
😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😂🤣that comment felt so refreshing, everybody else is all geeky
That museum is in Bolzano, South Tyrol. Been there a few years ago, it's brilliant!
In my opinion, this is the best episode of Bio Graphics i've ever watched! I learned a lot and I find it fascinating that the guy has relatives alive to day!!! Thanks and hello from Québec Canada!
Supposedly I am related to Otzi. We share a lot of dna and also location. Pretty cool I think.
@@amybarb25 I would say that's very cool indeed :) Have a good day from Canada!
Authorities: Will the family of Ötzi please come claim his body...
That means the entirety of Europe's population will go to that police station
5:08 "Wouldve weighed around 10 pounds" Otzi needs a burger
He need some milk
I find this absolutely fascinating. I'm a history nerd and this was a good breathe of fresh air.
That guy is still alive!!
Iv seen him teaching breathing skills in ice cold water here on youtube!!!
Win hofman
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The fact that they found several things that are unique to that time period on a guy that walked around the alps is pretty weird, considering how remote it is and how old this guy was (26 was the life expectancy back then, which means he was almost DOUBLE the life expectancy). All that tells me is that we barely don't know anything from that time period, it's just wide-spread speculations from the few things we have found.
If life expectancy for that period involves all the children that died before they reach the age of 5, then he wasnt that old. The children mortality in those times was very high. However, if you managed to become an adult, it wasnt that uncommon to reach his age, I believe.
Hey Ho, just because you don't know what you're talking about doesn't mean that the people who've dedicated their lives to studying it also don't.
@@ChuckNorrisCanSeeU You're right. The 20-30 year average is because of the high child mortality. Once you got passed that (and child birth), it wasn't that uncommon throughout history to reach 60-70 years (or older).
I knew he was old but 600 years before the pyramids! Wow. That's really old.
Dr Do-Little that’s not a fact most of that is sugar pills... times put in to make it make sense
There is a lot of talk about them being much much older
@@VentureTime_ow what? Did I have a stroke?
Dr Do-Little : evidence is trickling out the the pyramids are likely over 10,000 years old...
@@hertzair1186
You wanna back that up with YOUR sources for this?
4:09 cutting from this picture to an ad for beef jerky was something I found far funnier than I should
Imagine this: You died suddenly, and 6000 years later, scientists find your body and study you
And a million people watching you on their devices all over the world, who knows maybe I die and they find me in the next 6k years and they put me in a museum
TheDarkLord Satanas just try to die on a cold mountain
the nerve!
Imagine still seeing stuff while being dead, and to be suddenly surprised about people seeing you 6000 years later, but can’t express it in any way to them
I love how a lot of the comments are "10lbs alive?!" Cuz I had to go back several times to check myself and started laughing every time. Oh. Simon, I love you man.
Man, he sure let himself go when he died smh
This individual moved into his mid-forties in one of the toughest terrains on Earth. He was healthy he was strong he was a warrior he was smart he was capable he was a truly inspiring and inspirational individual.
Nobody else survived very long in those days, natural selection weeded you out.
Imagine people finding a body of this time 5,000 years from now. " Turns out this speciment had a very poor diet of McDonald's, GMOs, and had suffered from diabetes, heart disease, and highly allergic to gluten.
That's not too hard to imagine
was good until the GMOs part
@@TheTrashPoliticDoctrine Well,that's just the truth
This is so fucking hilarious yet very possible
@@jakubpociecha8819 Based on what evidence?
This was a great video Simon, very captivating and more interesting than most other biographics on this channel. It's unbelievable how much info the scientists have been able to discover just from his body.
Super Hans ✅ I think it’s amazing they were able to know what his last meal was!
I remember reading books about this guy when I was probably 5. I was so obsessed with this story, and until this day I had completely forgotten about it.
This was such an informative video, well done crew!!!
Thanks! I really enjoyed this video. I wonder how many more informative bodies like this are still waiting to be discovered.
A whole new meaning for “cold case”
That music when discussing his outfit was extra asf, you're too much 😂😭
Okay, now we wanna see about the Tollund Man.
And the several other Bog Bodies that have been found in the UK as well as Scandinavia
Anytime I hear a story about some frozen person or animal, my imagination always goes to cloning.
Outstanding production. Ive been very interested in him all these years. It was good to get an update. Well done!!
Ha! Otzi looks like some of my relatives from southern Switzerland.
There is a theory about the man's fate I find plausible, which is, that he was a man of importance (→expensive clothes, expensive axe) who, for some reason had to run from his enemies, and thus, fled up high into the mountains, which he must have known quite well. Only, his enemies got him (→arrow head in his body), but left the corpse and did _not_ take any of his possessions, because if they had run around with his stuff, people would have recognized them. So after the kill, his killers just went down to the valley and acted as if nothing happened … and over five thousand years later, his body was found, at a time, when the great pyramids of Giza were as far in the future as space flight from medieval knights.
Amazing.
There is, of course, also a more light hearted approach to the matter, because people were wondering, which nationality the man was from. Couldn't have been Italian, for he carried tools for work, couldn't have been Austrian, because he carried no Schnaps, so maybe he was a German tourist, because who else would walk up the mountains in sandals…
A czech tourist would. In flip-flops, no less
The reseblance to Wim Hof is striking 😂
He was a fashionista fleeing from Austria's bad taste of Fashion, over to the Italian side...
There was an old joke about from where he was, -> austrian on a shopping trip to italy, -> german, who else would wear sandals in high mountains, ->swiss, the glacier was faster and overtook him... (At that time southern austrians went to italy on every occasion for shopping, lots of german tourists in the alps got themselves into trouble because of wrong footwear, and the swiss way of speaking high german is made fun of for beeing slow...)
Awesome subject, remember reading about Otzi when I was a kid in National Geo.
I loved it please post more videos like this Thank you and hope all is well
“He would have weighted around 10 pounds.” Wow we have gotten fat in modern times.
Cornell Overbeeke, MD specifically 8-10 times more
@@DragonHunter24 what you weigh 80 -100LBs?
Dill Houston he’s probably American
Evolution dont mean that humans were shorter, there were tall people too, no iphones but smart people too
That was great. I really enjoyed this video.
Homeboy died whilst in the midst of doing a dab.
Big respect for him :(
I wonder what he would have thought knowing thousands of years later modern man would discover him and study him. And also be famous.
He is dead
@Wesley Winston link please. I can't seem to find it.
Otzi could not relate to the number 100 let alone 5000. In his world everything was smaller. The concept of fame would also not have existed. People only knew other people in their own community.
I feel like the idea of being discovered, then realizing he had in fact been murdered, would be distressing to the ice man. But if he's anything like modern men, he would've likely been at least curious. That's my guess anyway. Still, what an interesting historical figure.
He would thought nothing about it, propabally just minding his business, eating some animals and shooting arrows, you know.
i remember having a discussion about this in school. when people die, and we burry them, we of course dress them in fancy clothes, make them look nice and respectable, and then we put them in a nice casket. it really doesn't reflect much about our culture or our personalities, and that's a big problem that archaeologists and historians have when they study mumified remains that are so old. because even back then, there were rituals for burrying people, and mumified remains don't tell much about who that person was in society, or what the culture was like. however, the ice man had a more natural death, and we discovered him as he would have been in any other day of his life. by studying his clothes and his items, we disgussed how we could learn more about what his everyday life might have been like.
Mummified remains tell us a very great deal about what a person's life and society were like.
Great stuff Simon!