Iceman 'bled to death on glacier'

[Allegra]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Iceman 'bled to death on glacier'

"Massive blood loss from a ruptured artery killed the 5,300-year-old Alpine "Iceman" known as Oetzi, tests confirm.

A Swiss-Italian team says the arrow that struck him in the left shoulder slit the artery under his collar bone.
Oetzi probably died as the result of a fight: he may either have fled his attacker - who then shot him in the back - or been ambushed. The remains of the Neolithic man were discovered in 1991 emerging from a melting glacier."

 

[Rosemary]

Another piece of the mystery solved then Allegra! At least he died quite quickly... I wonder if the reason for the attack will ever be discovered though!

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

Nice to know that shortly after inventing tools, early man started using said tools to bash the brains out of his neighbour.

 

[AphroditeMSC]

It's in the nature of the beast, Winters Sorrow.

 

[j d worthington]

Yes, it is. However, so is cooperation, something we tend to deemphasize (in the sense of seeing the darker part of our nature almost exclusively) these days... were it not so, we'd not have made it as far as we have. It's still a gri picture in some ways; but I think looking at the past we can see things have improved quite a bit in many areas... I'm just not sure how widespread the better side is in the population overall....

At any rate, thanks for posting the story, Allegra!