Fun anthropology speculation.
He was found wounded, believed to to have been killed with an arrow.
Material culture at this time was very poor. Likely they looted his body for the better gear he had when he died.
That means it's possible we are only seeing a portion of his stuff but that is the stuff that would have been seen as easily accessible.
Its been a while. Since I looked into it.
He was in a crevasse right?
No, just out in the open iirc. His gear was set around him like he was making camp, for example I think his axe was out leaning against a rock.
Here's a thing I think people are missing: it's not a video game so you don't die instantly from such a wound. They didn't find any complete arrows with tips on his person. I think he was making new tips for his arrows when he was ambushed, shot all of his remaining complete arrows at whoever was shooting at him. The murderer ran off and didn't steal his gear as the murderer was part of the same local village/community, of which otzi was also a part. I think otzi was a hunter who traded with the locals and was well known. If the murderer stole otzi's gear, people would recognise it in the village and when otzi didn't turn up for weeks, then months, they would know who had killed him (the guy sporting a nice new copper axe and bear skin cap).
When they start using this theory remember you saw it here first.
The fight presumably didn't take place where he died
I remember reading somewhere that his body likely slid down the mountain over the years and he received a funeral given some of the tools he had on him certainly would have been of enough value to steal, in particular, his copper axe. I also read that they found particles in his lungs that suggest he was a metalworker, or spent a lot of time around rudimentary forges.
My own personal theory on his killers is that his group were followed into the mountains, knowing the Ötzi and his compaions likely had shit worth stealing given he was probably a smith/trader. They ambushed Ötzi's party at their camp after a delicious breakfast of cereals and herbs, baked on a stone. Ötzi was shot in the back in the opening volley but his attackers were driven off by the rest of the party.
the Celts in central Europe knew where to dig for iron ore (several meter below topsoil) by looking and observing the plants above.
Meanwhile most zoomers cant navigate without a phone anymore
His male lineage still lives on. 9 men in the town near where he was found are descended from him.
This is noteworthy because the indo European invasions ended a lot of the males of the original Europeans.
What forensic evidence indicates he had any more that one attacker
They found blood from 2 different people on one of his arrows, indicating he killed one guy, retrieved the arrow, killed another, and retrieved the arrow again.They also found blood from another person on his knife, and then blood from a fourth person on his cloak/coat which makes people think he carried a wounded comrade away from the site of a fight. He also had cuts and bruises on his hands, wrists, and chest which could have been from a close-in fight.
After an arrow stuck him in an artery next to his shoulder and he sustained blunt force trauma to the head. Still impressive he was able to survive a trek in the alps as long as he did with his kit and expertise
clearly it and similar structures were the prehistoric equivalent of a bunch of unrelated boys digging a hole at the beach, only over periods of centuries.
> Be me > Get anthropology degree > Spend most my classes feeling like an PrepHole pussy
It's funny how ignorant to real world matters most university people are.
Once when looking at some large statues that were displaced I raised my hand and asked if they ever found the footings for the statues... I didn't get a good answer.
The anthro field is so sad to see get fricked up too. It's a pretty based area of study but the liberals come in and b***h about how you describe some natives thong as "simple".
The professor I asked was cool he has some stuff published about the meso American culture being on the edge of a bronze age when Columbus arrived. You just arn't allowed to be Indiana Jones anymore.
The anthro field is so sad to see get fricked up too. It's a pretty based area of study but the liberals come in and b***h about how you describe some natives thong as "simple".
The professor I asked was cool he has some stuff published about the meso American culture being on the edge of a bronze age when Columbus arrived. You just arn't allowed to be Indiana Jones anymore.
I've found that Most university types are just good academic "button-pushers"; that is, they know how to smell other peoples' farts until they have enough clout and experience to start teaching.
Research is easy and few of them do any research that really changes our understanding of the world. It's pretty easy to get a master's and phd, at least in earth sciences. You just have to be obedient and work consistently.
University teaches you how to sound smart, but when debating matters of actual importance, they just tell you to "trust the science" and "trust the experts". Because its what they've been trained to do. They lack the impulse to create their own understanding of the world outside of their microscopic area of study.
Me too buddy. I remember casually talking with one of my typical affluent anthro professors about the homeless and he seemed very surprised that many homeless people are, in fact, violent drug addicts. Also, I loved doing fieldwork but I can't stand being stuck with these loonies for weeks on end in the middle of nowhere.
The anthro field is so sad to see get fricked up too. It's a pretty based area of study but the liberals come in and b***h about how you describe some natives thong as "simple".
The professor I asked was cool he has some stuff published about the meso American culture being on the edge of a bronze age when Columbus arrived. You just arn't allowed to be Indiana Jones anymore.
Also, on the topic of mesoamerica, the affluent professor put Cortes on blast for supposedly burning his ships when they arrived in the new world. He painted him as a stark raving lunatic with no friends who madly destroyed their only way home.
The reality is that military commanders and leaders have been doing this for thousands of years. Sun Tzu even writes about how troops will fight harder if you "burn their bridges behind them". Instead to prof (who was a pretty cool guy for the most part) went on and on about Crazy Cortes and the poor Aztecs. Also loved talking about how bad of an archaeologist Indiana Jones was, funnily enough.
Gives me half a mind to become a third world antiquities dealer.
Fun fact: Otzi is the oldest example we have of a human with tattoos. But none of his tattoos are pictures representing things like we have today. They're more like lines, series of parallel lines, and intersecting lines in seemingly random places on his body. Historians think these may have been medical charms meant to prevent pain or induce healing, because he had these tattoos on top of old wounds and over his bad back.
Europe was populated by neanderthals long before the ancestors of the basque arrived and there isn't, to my knowledge, good evidence that the basque came to populate all of europe. If you have evidence to support the notion that otzi was culturally an descendant of the basque, please do share.. But I don't think all Europeans are descendant from basque populations
>good evidence that the basque came to populate all of europe.
And population on earth has short people. He probably wasn't even that short for his time
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That article suggests the basque or ancestors of the basque also populated the british isles, but says nothing about the interior of Europe, where Otzi was found.
>Ötzi's full genome has been sequenced; the report on this was published on 28 February 2012.[54] The Y chromosome DNA of Ötzi belongs to a subclade of G defined by the SNPs M201, P287, P15, L223 and L91 (G-L91, ISOGG G2a2b, former "G2a4"). He was not typed for any of the subclades downstreaming from G-L91; however, an analysis of his BAM file revealed that he belongs to the L166 and FGC5672 subclades below L91.[55] G-L91 is now mostly found in South Corsica.[56]
>Analysis of his mitochondrial DNA showed that Ötzi belongs to the K1 subclade, but cannot be categorized into any of the three modern branches of that subclade (K1a, K1b, or K1c). The new subclade has provisionally been named K1ö for Ötzi.[57] A multiplex assay study was able to confirm that the Iceman's mtDNA belongs to a previously unknown European mtDNA clade with a very limited distribution among modern data sets.[58]
>By autosomal DNA, Ötzi is most closely related to Southern Europeans, especially to geographically isolated populations like Corsicans and Sardinians.[59][60][61][62] He was part of the migration of early European farmers who migrated from Anatolia to Europe in large numbers during the 7th millennium BC, replacing earlier Europe's hunter-gatherers.[63]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_G-M201
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>>By autosomal DNA, Ötzi is most closely related to Southern Europeans, especially to geographically isolated populations like Corsicans and Sardinians
See pic related.
The Original Sardinian language is lost to history. But it probably was in the proto-basque family as they both seem to have come from the same place genetically.
Best bet for Ötzi is proto-basque.
The distance between the basque country and Tyrol is less than many American Indian language ranges.
Take the Paiute. Who's language group reached from Arizona to Oregon. And belonged to the Aztec language family, which stretched from central Mexico, all the way to the Canadian border.
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Anonymous
>And belonged to the Aztec language family, which stretched from central Mexico, all the way to the Canadian border.
Pic related just because I am fascinated with this subject, in Europe and America.
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Anonymous
>mayo
1 year ago
Anonymous
If that interests you look into the Athabascan languages. They are spoken in areas from interior Alaska to the Southwest.
It's my personal theory that the Athabascan tongues are the descendants of the Clovis culture, considering their geographic distribution.
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Anonymous
I was once told that the Navajo only punched their way into the southwest interior after they developed relationships and got technology from the Spanish.
They actually made slaves of the Paiutes until whites put a stop to it.
They look very different from the other peoples of the southwest
Doubt. Indo-Europeans weren't really established in the area and Oetzi had <1.5% IE DNA.
DNA obviously doesn't tell you what language someone spoke, as all the different races speaking English in America are a testament to.
But I think it's most likely he spoke some Neolithic Farmer language.
Oh boy the historic beginning of over achievers, standing armies, mass rape & enslavement, wealth accumulation, burials focused on the individual, egotistical tyrants, and constant warfare. Thanks indo-europeans I was really getting tired of growing crops and banging my wife all day, I wanted to be a slave in the copper mines eking out a living collecting ore so the local warlord can have another shiny weapon to kill the neighbors (or one of our own people if we refuse to pay the protection fee to his mercenaries or we don't give our daughter to one of his vassals as a concubine). ROLLY WHEEL BIG HORSEY GO FAST VROOM VROOM, SHINY BRONZE SO COOL, CONSTANT RAIDING AND RETALIATING SO EPIC I LOVE NEVER ENDING CONFLICT THAT DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE AND ALL THE REWARDS OF CONQUEST ARE FLEETING BUT IT'S SO COOOOOOOOOLL TO BE JUST LIKE ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND PAVE THE WAY FOR GLOBOhomosexual HELL WITH PERPETUAL WARFARE AND EXPANSION. LIFE WAS SO BORING WHEN WE ALL JUST TOOK CARE OF OUR SMALL COMMUNITIES AND CARVED FIGURINES OF BIG BUTT BIG TIT LADIES, WE NEEDED MORE DEATH AND DRAMA, WE NEEDED A SAUSAGE FEST OF WARLORDS AND HIGH PRIESTS TO COME AND IMPROVE EVERYTHING.
ahhh otzi. i saw him a few minths ago in balzano italy. what surprised me most were his clothes, they aren't just big pieces of fabric but rather many many different layered pieces sewn together by hand. i feel bad for otzi's wife or whoever made that for him. did you know he's actaully 5'6? histories first short king.
big as bear showed up after the fight
weather
fell somewhere they couldn't reach
both warring parties in no shape to return stick around and scavenge
shut idk lol
where is a good place to find rocks for arrow heads over there, in the mountains?
I read that it was early spring when he died and that he had been eating game meat. seems to me like after winter the tribe needed more arrows, so they head out into the mountains to forge and hunt when they were ambushed.
Akschually he carried a lot of semi-competent kit, impressive for like 4000 yrs ago
but I bet he didn't buy that gear. he had to level up to get it.
He traded some mammoth to the clerk at the REI cave.
He most likely did trade for it, as indicated by his clothing, kit, and tattoos, he was a wealthy and high status individual.
Otzi was a rich gearqueer
Stay mad, stay poor
>"Poor"
If I was poor, would I have TWO bronze knife blades? Picrel.
I bet you feel pretty stupid now, huh?
Go spill your berries elsewhere, gatherer.
Shit, Anon. You don't need to flex so hard
Damn nice fletching
Thanks, the work of a native friend of mine. Turkey feather, high glue, deer sinew. Work damn well for deer.
>Otzi was a rich gearqueer
maybe, but who knows, maybe he was the artisan and that's why he was rich
>Double layer shoes, inners made of grass outers made of deerskin with bearskin soles
holy frick, they're samarter then I thought
Fun anthropology speculation.
He was found wounded, believed to to have been killed with an arrow.
Material culture at this time was very poor. Likely they looted his body for the better gear he had when he died.
That means it's possible we are only seeing a portion of his stuff but that is the stuff that would have been seen as easily accessible.
The fight presumably didn't take place where he died
Its been a while. Since I looked into it.
He was in a crevasse right?
this. I think he got shot from an arrow then died later. he relaxed.
>High level player gets ganked by bowgayging noobs before he could extract with his schweet goat cape and flammable mushrooms.
damn shame
No, just out in the open iirc. His gear was set around him like he was making camp, for example I think his axe was out leaning against a rock.
Here's a thing I think people are missing: it's not a video game so you don't die instantly from such a wound. They didn't find any complete arrows with tips on his person. I think he was making new tips for his arrows when he was ambushed, shot all of his remaining complete arrows at whoever was shooting at him. The murderer ran off and didn't steal his gear as the murderer was part of the same local village/community, of which otzi was also a part. I think otzi was a hunter who traded with the locals and was well known. If the murderer stole otzi's gear, people would recognise it in the village and when otzi didn't turn up for weeks, then months, they would know who had killed him (the guy sporting a nice new copper axe and bear skin cap).
When they start using this theory remember you saw it here first.
I remember reading somewhere that his body likely slid down the mountain over the years and he received a funeral given some of the tools he had on him certainly would have been of enough value to steal, in particular, his copper axe. I also read that they found particles in his lungs that suggest he was a metalworker, or spent a lot of time around rudimentary forges.
My own personal theory on his killers is that his group were followed into the mountains, knowing the Ötzi and his compaions likely had shit worth stealing given he was probably a smith/trader. They ambushed Ötzi's party at their camp after a delicious breakfast of cereals and herbs, baked on a stone. Ötzi was shot in the back in the opening volley but his attackers were driven off by the rest of the party.
He slipped over the mountain for a booty call on some unauthorized poontang. Poontang owner got rightly pissed off and hunted his ass down.
Like all mopes he ran for home and got an arrow in the back for his trouble. You see folks poonany has always gotten a man in trouble.
>owner
KYS yourself
The rut, the strut, the spawn. Gets us all in trouble
OTZI-TEX
the Celts in central Europe knew where to dig for iron ore (several meter below topsoil) by looking and observing the plants above.
Meanwhile most zoomers cant navigate without a phone anymore
>Antler multi-tool
Psh, fricking REI newb
And he still died.
Wtf Ötzi was just like me
Well, getting shot tends to do that to you
And so will you. Sooner than you think.
love that little freak
name?
Ligma
from an arrow to the major artery.
he was murdered. shot in the back with an arrow.
His male lineage still lives on. 9 men in the town near where he was found are descended from him.
This is noteworthy because the indo European invasions ended a lot of the males of the original Europeans.
Ötzi wasn't a made man
he relaxed
Got me
real greaseball shit
slatt slatt
It was among the cro-mags. real neolithic shit.
It could have been a hunting accident. I imagine those happened back then as well
They found blood from 2 different people on one of his arrows, indicating he killed one guy, retrieved the arrow, killed another, and retrieved the arrow again.They also found blood from another person on his knife, and then blood from a fourth person on his cloak/coat which makes people think he carried a wounded comrade away from the site of a fight. He also had cuts and bruises on his hands, wrists, and chest which could have been from a close-in fight.
After an arrow stuck him in an artery next to his shoulder and he sustained blunt force trauma to the head. Still impressive he was able to survive a trek in the alps as long as he did with his kit and expertise
He was murdered by two men that were following him up the mountain.
Maybe it was five men. Or even twenty.
How the frick do you know?
forensics or some shit
What forensic evidence indicates he had any more that one attacker
My ass
You can see for yourself what really happened. Watch Der Mann auf dem Eis
its over
where do i cop this?
the forest
And archaeologists think this created Gobekli Tepe???
clearly it and similar structures were the prehistoric equivalent of a bunch of unrelated boys digging a hole at the beach, only over periods of centuries.
Man this undermines my kit. I'd feel inadequate if I came upon this prehistoric hominid
>hatchet instead of machete
His bronze axe likely made him pretty high status. Unironically the bronze age version of a Gransfors-Bruks user.
a larper?
You know the pyramids were built 5k years ago
it's not even weird that they knew so much. they lived outside and knew more about nature and it's uses more than we do.
berry eater need cup to drink water
but real man drink water with hand
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
> Be me
> Get anthropology degree
> Spend most my classes feeling like an PrepHole pussy
It's funny how ignorant to real world matters most university people are.
Once when looking at some large statues that were displaced I raised my hand and asked if they ever found the footings for the statues... I didn't get a good answer.
Feetgays never read the room
imagine debating academics. those people are only good at kissing ass to get ahead. truth was never the priority
The anthro field is so sad to see get fricked up too. It's a pretty based area of study but the liberals come in and b***h about how you describe some natives thong as "simple".
The professor I asked was cool he has some stuff published about the meso American culture being on the edge of a bronze age when Columbus arrived. You just arn't allowed to be Indiana Jones anymore.
I've found that Most university types are just good academic "button-pushers"; that is, they know how to smell other peoples' farts until they have enough clout and experience to start teaching.
Research is easy and few of them do any research that really changes our understanding of the world. It's pretty easy to get a master's and phd, at least in earth sciences. You just have to be obedient and work consistently.
University teaches you how to sound smart, but when debating matters of actual importance, they just tell you to "trust the science" and "trust the experts". Because its what they've been trained to do. They lack the impulse to create their own understanding of the world outside of their microscopic area of study.
Me too buddy. I remember casually talking with one of my typical affluent anthro professors about the homeless and he seemed very surprised that many homeless people are, in fact, violent drug addicts. Also, I loved doing fieldwork but I can't stand being stuck with these loonies for weeks on end in the middle of nowhere.
Also, on the topic of mesoamerica, the affluent professor put Cortes on blast for supposedly burning his ships when they arrived in the new world. He painted him as a stark raving lunatic with no friends who madly destroyed their only way home.
The reality is that military commanders and leaders have been doing this for thousands of years. Sun Tzu even writes about how troops will fight harder if you "burn their bridges behind them". Instead to prof (who was a pretty cool guy for the most part) went on and on about Crazy Cortes and the poor Aztecs. Also loved talking about how bad of an archaeologist Indiana Jones was, funnily enough.
Gives me half a mind to become a third world antiquities dealer.
>Also, I loved doing fieldwork but I can't stand being stuck with these loonies for weeks on end in the middle of nowhere.
kek pretty much this
>literally is holding gear
Wim Hof?
Those ass-less chaps my guy.
imagine the smell
>this was a 45 year old man in 3000 BC
what the frick?
Fun fact: Otzi is the oldest example we have of a human with tattoos. But none of his tattoos are pictures representing things like we have today. They're more like lines, series of parallel lines, and intersecting lines in seemingly random places on his body. Historians think these may have been medical charms meant to prevent pain or induce healing, because he had these tattoos on top of old wounds and over his bad back.
or maybe he just liked straight lines
>random
They intersect at the same points used in acupuncture.
Acunpunture maybe?
The Black folk who are still hunter gatherers, herders, and farmers aren't too bad. The ones who live in towns and cities however....
Yes but that's by circumstance. If they lived back in Africa they'd be hunter gatherers. They just dont belong in a civilized society.
>Gear
>Ger
picrel most important piece of "Ger"
>implying he spoke German and not a proto-basque language
>proto-basque language
that is something i was not expecting to read about in PrepHole
basques go that far back?
They are the original Europeans.
You don't know shit.
Europe was populated by neanderthals long before the ancestors of the basque arrived and there isn't, to my knowledge, good evidence that the basque came to populate all of europe. If you have evidence to support the notion that otzi was culturally an descendant of the basque, please do share.. But I don't think all Europeans are descendant from basque populations
oh yea otzi was a 5'3" manlet so definitely not basque
>good evidence that the basque came to populate all of europe.
And population on earth has short people. He probably wasn't even that short for his time
That article suggests the basque or ancestors of the basque also populated the british isles, but says nothing about the interior of Europe, where Otzi was found.
>Ötzi's full genome has been sequenced; the report on this was published on 28 February 2012.[54] The Y chromosome DNA of Ötzi belongs to a subclade of G defined by the SNPs M201, P287, P15, L223 and L91 (G-L91, ISOGG G2a2b, former "G2a4"). He was not typed for any of the subclades downstreaming from G-L91; however, an analysis of his BAM file revealed that he belongs to the L166 and FGC5672 subclades below L91.[55] G-L91 is now mostly found in South Corsica.[56]
>Analysis of his mitochondrial DNA showed that Ötzi belongs to the K1 subclade, but cannot be categorized into any of the three modern branches of that subclade (K1a, K1b, or K1c). The new subclade has provisionally been named K1ö for Ötzi.[57] A multiplex assay study was able to confirm that the Iceman's mtDNA belongs to a previously unknown European mtDNA clade with a very limited distribution among modern data sets.[58]
>By autosomal DNA, Ötzi is most closely related to Southern Europeans, especially to geographically isolated populations like Corsicans and Sardinians.[59][60][61][62] He was part of the migration of early European farmers who migrated from Anatolia to Europe in large numbers during the 7th millennium BC, replacing earlier Europe's hunter-gatherers.[63]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_G-M201
>>By autosomal DNA, Ötzi is most closely related to Southern Europeans, especially to geographically isolated populations like Corsicans and Sardinians
See pic related.
The Original Sardinian language is lost to history. But it probably was in the proto-basque family as they both seem to have come from the same place genetically.
Best bet for Ötzi is proto-basque.
The distance between the basque country and Tyrol is less than many American Indian language ranges.
Take the Paiute. Who's language group reached from Arizona to Oregon. And belonged to the Aztec language family, which stretched from central Mexico, all the way to the Canadian border.
>And belonged to the Aztec language family, which stretched from central Mexico, all the way to the Canadian border.
Pic related just because I am fascinated with this subject, in Europe and America.
>mayo
If that interests you look into the Athabascan languages. They are spoken in areas from interior Alaska to the Southwest.
It's my personal theory that the Athabascan tongues are the descendants of the Clovis culture, considering their geographic distribution.
I was once told that the Navajo only punched their way into the southwest interior after they developed relationships and got technology from the Spanish.
They actually made slaves of the Paiutes until whites put a stop to it.
They look very different from the other peoples of the southwest
interesting
Quiet, American. The adults are talking.
No.
he might have spoke an Indo-European language like proto-Celtic
Doubt. Indo-Europeans weren't really established in the area and Oetzi had <1.5% IE DNA.
DNA obviously doesn't tell you what language someone spoke, as all the different races speaking English in America are a testament to.
But I think it's most likely he spoke some Neolithic Farmer language.
homie hit the dab thousands of years before it was cool
This is how I sleep, no wonder I have shoulder problems
I have very much thought of getting Otzi tattoos.
why?
Gear
why he built like that
You may not like it but this is peak male performance
>no body hair to protect from the sun
No wonder "cavemen" went extinct.
It's europe, what sun
homie he froze to death
Cap. Mans opps got tight and was bussin on em. He was lackin.
Fr fr stay strapped or get clapped
What a tool
You're the tool if you believe that was about Otzi
Realistically, this man could throttle every poster in this board (except for me)
>Realistically, this man could throttle every poster in this bo-
>mfw there's no round in the chamber
LIKE A WAVE
get raided boi
He got that conqueror physiognomy
Oh boy the historic beginning of over achievers, standing armies, mass rape & enslavement, wealth accumulation, burials focused on the individual, egotistical tyrants, and constant warfare. Thanks indo-europeans I was really getting tired of growing crops and banging my wife all day, I wanted to be a slave in the copper mines eking out a living collecting ore so the local warlord can have another shiny weapon to kill the neighbors (or one of our own people if we refuse to pay the protection fee to his mercenaries or we don't give our daughter to one of his vassals as a concubine). ROLLY WHEEL BIG HORSEY GO FAST VROOM VROOM, SHINY BRONZE SO COOL, CONSTANT RAIDING AND RETALIATING SO EPIC I LOVE NEVER ENDING CONFLICT THAT DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE AND ALL THE REWARDS OF CONQUEST ARE FLEETING BUT IT'S SO COOOOOOOOOLL TO BE JUST LIKE ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND PAVE THE WAY FOR GLOBOhomosexual HELL WITH PERPETUAL WARFARE AND EXPANSION. LIFE WAS SO BORING WHEN WE ALL JUST TOOK CARE OF OUR SMALL COMMUNITIES AND CARVED FIGURINES OF BIG BUTT BIG TIT LADIES, WE NEEDED MORE DEATH AND DRAMA, WE NEEDED A SAUSAGE FEST OF WARLORDS AND HIGH PRIESTS TO COME AND IMPROVE EVERYTHING.
>implying that men weren't killing each other for cattle or land before the Lord Indra arrived on the banks of the Danube and said "Heil Hitler"
Longhouse.
War is cool.
They tried their best to recreate a shitskinned dravidian dasyu and all they did was make a chad George Clooney
ahhh otzi. i saw him a few minths ago in balzano italy. what surprised me most were his clothes, they aren't just big pieces of fabric but rather many many different layered pieces sewn together by hand. i feel bad for otzi's wife or whoever made that for him. did you know he's actaully 5'6? histories first short king.
He was 5'3".
ANF DNA is associated with low genetic height.
whos the cute girl?
>singlehandedly delays human evolution in your path
why didnt they take his stuff after killing him?
Two theories:
1: It was highly recognizable, high status kit that would be very obvious, especially if he was a craftsman or societal leader.
2: cultural superstition about said high status items, again based off the fact of him being a craftsman or societal leader.
big as bear showed up after the fight
weather
fell somewhere they couldn't reach
both warring parties in no shape to return stick around and scavenge
shut idk lol
where is a good place to find rocks for arrow heads over there, in the mountains?
I read that it was early spring when he died and that he had been eating game meat. seems to me like after winter the tribe needed more arrows, so they head out into the mountains to forge and hunt when they were ambushed.
chad