Ötzi: The Frozen Man from the Alps
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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"
bluecastle has
Everyone... I know, I know... My bad: 110 pounds. Not 10 pounds.
:)
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.
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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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
"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
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 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)
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. 😂
lol
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.
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
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.
@@jt0094 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!
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.
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.
I scrolled into the comments specifically to see if anyone else caught that, and here it's someone else I watch and respect! 👌
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
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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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
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.
"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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Otzi: *last online 5,300 years ago*
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
Danny Landrum
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.
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 🎄
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.
“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.
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.
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🕺🏿
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
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.
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
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
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
Ötzi looks like he'd have cool campfire stories to tell.
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
@@abdulkarimelnaas7595 Well, except for Marijuana
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
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
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.
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.
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 😂🤣
A whole new meaning for “cold case”
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.
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
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 TH-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
5'2" and weighed around 10 pounds. Float like a feather sting like a bee. Jeebus
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
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 TH-cam! Lmao, Orange man has very sensitive fans
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
5:08 "Wouldve weighed around 10 pounds" Otzi needs a burger
He need some milk
4:09 cutting from this picture to an ad for beef jerky was something I found far funnier than I should
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.
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
Imagine this guy dying and his final instinct is to do a Dab.
Stop
Truly ahead of his time...
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.
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
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.
This was such an informative video, well done crew!!!
Outstanding production. Ive been very interested in him all these years. It was good to get an update. Well done!!
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
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
I find this absolutely fascinating. I'm a history nerd and this was a good breathe of fresh air.
Great stuff Simon!
Me in 2019: Eating chips on my couch
Ötzi 5'000 years ago: On a diet
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... ;)
Thanks! I really enjoyed this video. I wonder how many more informative bodies like this are still waiting to be discovered.
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.
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
@@earthbound2772 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?
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.
I loved it please post more videos like this Thank you and hope all is well
That museum is in Bolzano, South Tyrol. Been there a few years ago, it's brilliant!
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
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.
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.
amazing deliverance as always
That guy is still alive!!
Iv seen him teaching breathing skills in ice cold water here on youtube!!!
Win hofman
😂😂😂
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.
That music when discussing his outfit was extra asf, you're too much 😂😭
Another informative and interesting bit o' history! Thank you!
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 remember when Ötzi was found and have been intrigued ever since. Thank you all for this update on his story.
I was really interested in learning about Otzi and it was really interesting!
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).
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.
Really loved this one. Had me at the edge of my seat the whole time. Really interesting information. Thank you
I look forward to your articles,great info AND you get to the point. Thank you 😊.
Simon, that was excellent. Thank you
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.
The tatoo on wrist helped him aim his bow and arrow.
explain please. interesting idea but i dont see how that would work
@@tuckerbrunson4110 he could have turned the bow sideways and placed the arrow so it was level and between the parallel lines on his wrist before he let loose of the arrow. Dont think of the modern way people hold the bow as this is thousands of years ago.
@@Contact_Info he must have had very long arms to be able to draw his bow and very very strong
@@izuqh9884 have you ever shot a bow and arrow? It's not so hard.
@@Contact_Infoyes i have shot a bow and arrow. I own 2 bows.
Try shooting shooting a bow sideways to full draw
Wonderful cache of info about Ötzi. Thanks
His voice is so... velvety...
5:09 You say in life he would have weighed 10 lbs. Was he made of balsa wood? I think you meant 110 lbs.
Lol ancient Europeans were part bamboo/hemp. Lightweight and sturdy.
Probably meant 10 stone, not 10lbs
@@nickhenman7549 No, 10 stone is 30 lbs. too much. He weighed about 110 lbs. in life.
@@anne-droid7739 one stone is 14 lbs. 10 ×14 =140lbs source was Google so it could be wrong.
@@liftedninja1607 Exactly. 10 stone is 30 lbs. too much. He weighed a bit less than 8 stone.
This is different from the normal biographics videos. I love it more.
Brilliant opening description of the purposes of the examination.
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!
That was great. I really enjoyed this video.
This was bloody excellent!
I try to learn something new every day. Thanks for making that a reality.
Last time I was this early ötzi was still alive.
Go Hyuck Yourself damn man I still can’t believe my dude ötzi is dead. I was just hunting with him last week
Too soon, Roman. 😯
I used to teach my 8th graders about him in Ancient World History. I have a video on him.
My grandmother was a English honors teacher in high school here in the states. Thank you for the work you do we have a long line of teachers in my family and you guys should be paid better than rock stars. But thank you.
emonique989 I remember learning about him in Ancient history class
You madam are a blessing to the youth and the come mvp
@@viciousmindzentertainment9307 thanks sweetheart 😘🤩😘
@@emckethern Your welcome mademoiselle
Loved it!!! Thx Simon
Very cool video! Wasn't what I was expecting and it was an interesting peek through a portal into another time.