Super hero, nickname for jet fighter pilot in Tom Cruise classic, and 5000 year old corps found in a glacier; what do all three of these things have in common, there all called ice man. Unfortunately our paper is on the later of the three, but all the while a very intriguing topic. Dug out of a glacier in northern Italy more than a decade ago, the Ice man nicknamed Otzi, freezes, in all sense of the word, a day in the life of a person 5000 years ago. With the many theories and hypothesis about how Otzi died it is still, to a certain degree, a mystery.
A widely accepted theory is that Otzi died in a battle of some kind. Arrows and a knife found with Otzi contained blood from a second and third individual other then Otzi himself. Blood on the left side of Otzi's goat skin coat indicates a fourth person that Otzi may have been carrying for a distance unknown to modern man, but back then, I'm sure the ice man would have known how far he was carrying his deadweight, probably good as......
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