Ice Mummy Hypothesis

Finding the ice mummy opened a door of opportunities to scientists of all kind and historians. There were many questions being asked during the investigation. One being how old is the ice mummy body. In other words what time period, or how long ago did he live in. Scientist started questioning thing, they discovered which led the scientists to create hypotheses. The discovery of Otzi had scientists estimating how old the mummy was and what types of minerals his tools were. One hypothesis was that the ice mummy lived around 2000 BC because his tools, especially the ax head, which looked to have contain bronze and bronze was mostly used in tools and such in 2000 BC. To find the answer to the questions, and to see if their hypothesis were
correct, scientist started to form an experiment. They started experimenting on his body, food that was found with him, his tools and his personal belongings. Starting with his foods, scientists started doing x-rays on the berries that were with him, and comparing with foods. They discovered cells on the grass, that were found inside his shoes, which they experimented on and found close to the grass at the altitude of 1200 feet in the alps. Otzi’s clothes and body had undergone experiments. The scientist had taken materials from the bone, however only the protein was extracted so that it can be converted to CO2, which they used it by measuring the radioactivity left in it, so they can date it
Scientist had done the trial and waited a time to get the result The first results showed that Otzi was over 5000 years old, which was further than they had expected.
With other scientist testing the same thing, they compared the results and other labs had gotten the same results. Retrying the result, to make sure nothing affected the result, the second results showed the same results, around 5300 years ago. Also after testing on the ax head that was found with the body, they discovered that it was not really bronze, however had very little bronze, it was made of copper. Scientist gathered the information they had gotten, looked at the data, talked with other scientists and historians and came up with the conclusion of how long ago did Otzi live. Scientist formed the conclusion that he would have lived around 3300 BC, which were the stone age, it was also the time when copper was starting to be used, especially in ax. After getting the results and forming their conclusions scientists started coming up with more questions. After dating back his body and getting their conclusions scientists started wondering, where he was from? What did the tattoos on his body mean? Why was he in the alps? How was his body protected? How did he die? And many more questions started forming about
Otzi.