OTZI - the europeans ancestor

On September 19, 1991, Erika and Helmut Simon from Nuremberg discovered a human body in the Alps. At first, both they and intervention team arrived shortly afterwards believed that it is a climber who died there 10 or 20 years ago.

The body was brown, hairless, half buried in snow on the glacier Similaun. Warmer weather at the end of the twentieth century part of the glacier melted, revealing the corpse. The various small objects found around the remains of a body suggested obsolete equipment so that authorities began to think of a mountain accident happened in the twentieth century, then to something much older.

Copper ax found near the body suggest that it could even date from the Bronze Age. Radiocarbon dating showed an even earlier date, 3300 BC Such bodies have been occasionally, but they do not have a length greater than 1000 or 2000 years.

There are more ancient Egyptian mummies, but none so old have been found in Europe. Otzi as it was called, is the only well-preserved prehistoric Europe that was ever discovered. Death and preservation through freezing snow man gave us unexpectedly detailed information about how people lived and died in the past.

Pieces of clothing snow man survived. Underneath wearing a woolen braid and belt. Also wore braces that supported them leather pants, very similar to those worn by the Indians of North America. An intermediate layer consists of a tunic made of strips of animal skin carefully sewn with yarn from animal tendons. Alternating strips of brown and black fur create a striped pattern.

This tunic must have been a splendid thing when it was made, but when Otzi's death she had been patched several times. Protection of exterior comprised of leather shoes and a cape of about one meter in length made of woven grass with seven or eight cross-shaped braids who claimed the top and a row of fringe at the bottom.

Otzi also wear a fur hat shaped beehive. Otzi was 30-40 years old, 160 cm tall and had wavy brown hair.

Tattooed on the skin have some strange signs. There appeared to be a decorative character. It may be signs of an acupuncture treatment according to an illness he suffered.

Not only have researchers discovered the 5,300-year-old mummy suffered from atherosclerosis - narrowing of the arteries due to fatty deposits - they have found he may have been genetically predisposed to the condition.
Another option would be that there were marks of stages completed acquiring the status of an adult. In most societies there are rites of passage that marks the entry of the individual into a new stage of life, confirmations, Bar Mitzvahs, entrance exams, graduation ceremonies, weddings. It is possible that all his tattoos to represent a complete resume its status in society. It is unlikely that we will ever learn that represented those signs, since we have no way to decode them, although that possess the earliest known copper ax in Europe is a possible indication of a high social position.

The extreme thinness of the body after death was due to its drying. Forensic experts initially assumed that Otzi was surprised by a storm and had found shelter in a cave in a rock near the glacier, there dying of hypothermia. Only 10 years later days, when it was exposed to a new series of X-rays, experts have observed that had overlooked something important. Nestled in the shoulder corpse was stone head of an arrow. A new look on the body revealed the existence of a fresh wounds in the skin in place.

Otzi had been wounded. A closer examination of the site and various objects around him showed that Otzi was not only seriously injured and drove into the mountains, but his murderers visited him, moving his body and scattered things. Death of Otzi and conservation 5,000 years of weather was an unexpected event for researchers. Our thinking extends through finding new things about the past.

For example, researchers examining the contents of his stomach worked out that his final meal consisted of venison and ibex meat.
Archaeologists believe Otzi, who was carrying a bow, a quiver of arrows and a copper axe, may have been a hunter or warrior killed in a skirmish with a rival tribe.
A hole in his collarbone suggested he was killed by an arrow, then a brain scan concluded he died from a fall.
But research from the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC) in Germany more recently discovered he suffered brain damage likely caused by a blow to the head.
Researchers also believe he was arthritic and infested with whipworm, an intestinal parasite.
The iceman's tattoos, which are largely seen on the parts of his body that endured wear-and-tear, lead archaeologists to liken the practice of tattooing to acupuncture, which is itself an ancient treatment for joint distress.
His perfectly preserved body is stored in his own specially designed cold storage chamber at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Italy at a constant temperature of -6°C. Visitors can view the mummy through a small window.
As we know really have to know who we are and where we come On Earth there were humans or human-looking beings even still 3 million years ago. The earliest, monkey-looking rather than people, are known as humanoids.

Some human types more advanced Homo erectus as a man upright, they could manufacture stone tools and could only go back two legs instead of all four. They knew, too, to light the fire. Their brains, however, was quite small, so they had a fairly limited intellectual capacity.

The first people in the true sense of the word appeared in Africa 2 million years ago

First portrait of woman in the world, was carved from ivory 25,000 years ago in France, representing a female head.

Sea levels were lower 38,000 years ago, which caused the shallower seas today have been dry at that time. Back then people could walk through the Southern North Sea in Britain.

We know from the findings of the seabed in the region Dogger Bank that humans used to hunt mammoths in these places.

It was possible to go from Asia to North America across a land bridge only in the Bering Strait. Not long after that, the first humans arrived in Australia from Asia, all via a land bridge, although it is possible that part of the road to be traversed by boat.

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