Ötzi

Ötzi is the mummified ice man found in a glacier between Italy and Austria.  I spent the afternoon at the museum here where there is a big display on Ötzi, although his actual body is in Italy.  Part of the display involved having a go with a bow and arrow similar to the one found with Ötzi and putting on a hat and goatskin cape, the same as that found on him.

Ötzi lived 5000 years ago, before Stonehenge and the building of the pyramids in Egypt, in the copper age.  He is particularly famous because all his clothing and equipment were found with him, food in his stomach and whipworm infestation in his gut.  Interestingly, his gut showed that he ate a high grain diet.  I wonder how this ties in with the current fad of "paleo diet"???  The other very interesting fact was that he had 61 tattoos on his body which correspond to accupuncture points which originated 2000 years later in China.

Wearing Ötzi's clothes