Ötzi, the iceman

In 1991, two alpinists found at south Tirol the body of a person. Firstly, they thought that it was the body of a recently accident, like 200 years after, but when the Scientifics studied the body of the man, they realized that it was a very important and successfully found.

Ötzi was a man who lived at the Neolithic times; it means that the body is 5000 years old, and was correctly extraordinarily good preserved because of its location, that was in a glacier. Another thing that is important is that around of the body, the police found a lot of tools, like arrows, a knife, some pieces of wood, and others. What’s more, they found some hair that help to know his DNA and of course if there is someone who nowadays is descendant of Ötzi. The bad side of its location is that during the rescue the body suffer some blows, and some of its bones had been broken. Another thing that happened was that some persons of the rescue team and the police robbed some things of the tools of Ötzi, because of this the place of the discovery was damaged but fortunately they had taken photos after touching anything.

Before the first Scientifics studied the body and realised that Ötzi was from the Neolithic, lots of other Scientifics have been interested in to study the body, because of this there are lots of hypothesis for the causes of the death of Ötzi. The most important are two

1.       The first one says that Ötzi was trying to escape from a group of people that were trying to kill him. Unfortunately one of the can hurt Ötzi with an arrow and some hours later he die into this glacier.

2.       The second one say that Ötzi was a farmer or a hunter that had been lost and a big storm did Ötzi hid into this place and after some hours he died by freezing at the glacier.