Preview

Otzi Iceman

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
600 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Otzi Iceman
Otzi iceman

In early 1991 September 19 two hikers from Germany found something strange in Italian Alps while they were having a break-they saw a human corpse. Later scholars researched it and found that it was a skull of an ancient human and they named it “Otzi Iceman”. The Iceman's meals have served up a feast of information to scholars. His stomach contained 30 different types of pollen. Analysis of that pollen shows that Ötzi died in spring or early summer, and it has even enabled researchers to trace his movements through different mountain elevations just before he died. His partially digested last meal suggests he ate two hours before his grisly end. In this essay I will write detailed information about the iceman, how it is discovered as well as some historic facts.
Ötzi is the oldest human mummy ever found preserved by freezing. The Iceman's possessions and clothing have given scientists a better look at what life was during the Neolithic Age in Europe. He has become part of our popular culture. He is the subject of many books and even a play. At first, scientists believed that Ötzi was caught in a heavy snowfall, fell asleep, and froze to death. They concluded this because there were no signs of predator attacks (and because they did not find conclusive evidence of other wounds). They believed that the body must have been covered with snow almost immediately or else the body would have been preyed upon.
In a sunny day two hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon, from Nuremberg in Germany, were walking in the Ötztal Alps. Descending from the Finail peak in the Tisenjoch area, the Simons decided to take a shortcut and left the marked footpath. As they walked past a rocky gully filled with meltwater, they noticed something brown on the gully bed. At first they thought it must be some sort of rubbish, but on closer inspection they realized with horror that they had discovered a human corpse. There are many predictions about iceman death but the most believable is

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    The Siberian Ice Maiden is a 2400 year old mummy from Siberia, whose preserved corpse was discovered by Archaeologists excavating in the Altai Mountains, near the Chinese border. The Ice Maiden was discovered in 1993 during a process of a dig led by Natalya Polosmak, of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.…

    • 1228 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Otzi the Iceman is the best kept mummy that we have come to discover, and with this we know he died what is believed to be a pretty horrific death. The climate around the time of Iceman’s death could not have helped his will to survive, scientists believe he was buried inside of the Similaun Glacier’s ice. The death itself caused by a fatal arrow to the back did not kill the man right away, leaving him to suffer a painful death.…

    • 405 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Otzi Research Paper

    • 508 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In recent years, the name “Ötzi” has been on the edge of every archaeologist’s tongue. In fact, experts estimate that the remains of the Iceman date back to 3,255 BC.…

    • 508 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    How Did The Bog Body Die?

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In 1952, a body was found in a grass bog, in the town of Windeby, Germany. The owners of the land wanted to cut the bog down for fuel and sell it. Though as they were cutting the bog they found a human body. However when they came across the bog body they stopped digging and saw that the body was damaged, there was damages to one leg, a foot and a hand which was detached from the body. When the body was discovered archaeologists had pieced all of evidence together, which caused many theories to arise and people asking why, how and when did, the mystery bog body die?…

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    ANT 275 Syllabus

    • 4203 Words
    • 17 Pages

    The material is presented in three parts. The first section introduces students to archaeology and pseudoarchaeology (literally “fake archaeology”), along with the basic concepts of science and anthropology that are necessary for a full understanding of both of these pursuits. In the second part, we apply the lessons of the first section to a series of pseudoarchaeological claims, ranging from the Cardiff Giant and Piltdown hoax to Atlantis and the Crystal Skull. We ask why do people make such claims, and why does the public embrace them? The third part surveys the real marvels of the ancient past, from Easter Island and Machu Picchu to Stonehenge and the Great Zimbabwe. We…

    • 4203 Words
    • 17 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    Grauballe Man Essay

    • 1238 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The body of now named Grauballe Man was discovered in 1952 when peat cutters was digging for fuel in a bog located near the village of Jutland. The body was found after 2 years upon Tollund Man in a neighbouring bog. There were debates on whether Grauballe was a local peat cutter, Red Christian that disappeared in 1887 near the same area. One source states “Red Christian was supposedly fond of alcohol and people assumed he fell into a bog and drowned because two drunken Cheshire men at Lindow moss in 1853 suffered the same fate.” Researchers of Carbon 14 dating realized that Grauballe Man died around 310 BC. The fact that he was found tells us the importance of our historical understanding that he wasn’t found just anywhere, he was discovered in the same area but a different location of the bog, which says he must have been a sacrifice or else why would so many bodies be excavated from a place within another.…

    • 1238 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Kuliniski the Ice Man

    • 533 Words
    • 3 Pages

    There is little information available on his victims, major details can only be found on those murders he was tried and convicted for. Kuklinski had made statements admitting to and describing over 200 murders between the years 1948 to 1986. It was because of the way Kuklinski disposed of certain bodies, including the body of Louis Masday that earned him the nickname of The Iceman by the media. With the murder of Masday, the media became more and more pressing on the issue of mafia connected murders. In 1986, he was charged with 5 counts of murder, six weapons violations, attempted murder, armed robbery, and robbery. In 1988 a New Jersey court Kuklinski was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences, making him only eligible for parole at the age of 111. While at the Trenton State Prison, he often granted interviews to writers, television producers, criminologists, psychiatrists, and even stars in two HBO documentaries, “The Iceman Confesses” and “The Iceman Tapes: A Conversation With A Killer”. There is also a book available written by Anthony Bruno, titled “The Iceman” detailing Kuklinski’s exploits.…

    • 533 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the time period characterized in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The Tollund man was discovered on May 6th, 1950 buried in a peat bog close to Bjældskovdal, an area located approximately 10 kilometers west of Silkeborg, Denmark.[1] The bog was just outside Tollund, hence the name the Tollund man. This area is occupied with murky peat bogs, which in the Iron Age were used as burial grounds for those who were sacrificed.…

    • 3999 Words
    • 16 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Otzi The Iceman

    • 753 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Roughly 5,000 years ago, Ötzi, the Iceman, was murdered on the Ötztal Alps due to stealing a copper axe from another civilization close to his. Recently, scientists have found key evidence inside and outside Ötzi’s body supporting this claim.…

    • 753 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Iceman - Preservation

    • 2915 Words
    • 12 Pages

    The body had been so well preserved because of the depth that the Iceman was actually lying in the ground, which was near the watershed (watershed meaning a line of high land where streams on one side flow into one river or sea and streams on the other side flow into another.) This meant that a glacier would be able to develop above him throughout the next millennia without moving his position down hill. In this position he was able to remain buried, frozen, covered and protected by the cold over a period of 5,300 years as the worlds oldest, best preserved natural mummy.…

    • 2915 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Iceman

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Otzi the Iceman is a nickname given to a very well preserved natural mummy of a man from Europe during the European Copper Age. He is the oldest natural human mummy preserved by freezing and he gives an extraordinary view of the European Copper Age. Otzi the Iceman aided us with an exceptional understanding of the European Copper Age from the equipment he was carrying, the cloth he was wearing, and the physical remains of his body.…

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Iceman Research Paper

    • 601 Words
    • 3 Pages

    We can only uncover so much about the iceman as technology will allow us, but thanks to recent advancements we have been able to uncover more and more about the iceman's life and the moments leading up to his death.…

    • 601 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Mount Lykaion Essay

    • 414 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Is it possible that through the massive burned offerings of sheep and goat and the treasures of cups and coins that the ashes of other humans will be found, or perhaps the missing part of the boy’s skull? Until more clues are dug up and more study is performed, Mylonopoulos admits that the skull may be missing due to a honorific practice historians are unfamiliar with, all we will have is bones with no…

    • 414 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Otzi Murder

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The man frozen in ice is one of the biggest mysteries to science. The man is from the Stone Age, this is the time period when man used stone made tools. The time period that Otzi, as he’s named by the press, has lead to many theories by scientist about how he died. Through research it was discovered he has an arrow stuck in his back and damage to the back of his head. This leads many people to believe that he was either murdered, a religious sacrifice, or fighting over land.…

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Who Killed The Iceman

    • 826 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Since finding the mummy, we have learned what he ate before he died and where his ancestors came from by investigating and comparing his physique and environment to the ones found commonly at that time. We even found out how Ötzi died after “an X-ray of the mummy pointed to foul play in the form of a flint arrowhead embedded in his back, just under his shoulder” (“Who Killed the Iceman? Clues Emerge in a Very Cold Case,” Nordland), which was a mystery for over a decade and would never have happened if we didn’t take the time to investigate the scene…

    • 826 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics