A European geneticists team found that Ötzi's clothes, the mummy of the Bronze Age found in 1991 in the Italian Alps, was designed with ...
A European geneticists team found that Ötzi's clothes, the mummy of the Bronze Age found in 1991 in the Italian Alps, was designed with the skins of various animals, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. Today the clothes would not have been very well treated in social networks by Defenders of Wildlife.
The parts of Ötzi horrify animal advocates: the "ice man" wore a bearskin hat, sheepskin coat and goat, pants also made with goat skin. And his "shoes" were full of hay and mold them were used cows ligaments.
These were some of the clothes that Ötzi wore at the time of his death, there 5300 years ago. As if that were not enough, the researchers also found arrows made of deerskin.
We have analyzed the mitochondrial DNA of nine pieces of leather and five different species of animals have been identified, "explained the study's authors.
Previous studies have linked the mummy with the agropastoral activity, but now scientists believe that these garments and arrows provide evidence that he was engaged in hunting of wild animals. [Scientific Reports]
The parts of Ötzi horrify animal advocates: the "ice man" wore a bearskin hat, sheepskin coat and goat, pants also made with goat skin. And his "shoes" were full of hay and mold them were used cows ligaments.
These were some of the clothes that Ötzi wore at the time of his death, there 5300 years ago. As if that were not enough, the researchers also found arrows made of deerskin.We have analyzed the mitochondrial DNA of nine pieces of leather and five different species of animals have been identified, "explained the study's authors.
Previous studies have linked the mummy with the agropastoral activity, but now scientists believe that these garments and arrows provide evidence that he was engaged in hunting of wild animals. [Scientific Reports]
