Ötzi: The Frozen Man from the Alps 

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Otzi was my uncle. DNA is wonderful right? Never had a clue I was a bit Italian and to find out I'm a relative of Otzi via his maternal side was doubly surprising. He looked more like 75 than 45 though. Hard living = shorter lifespans. 45 in that era actually equaled about 75 in this era. An age no one was expected to reach. In fact, 45 would have been considered quite elderly. So to Uncle Otzi - you're forgiven, we understand why you've missed all the holiday dinner invitations. .

5:10 i really doubt he weighed 10lbs.

It sounded to me like an edit error. I believe it was meant to say "110 lbs"

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To me, and this pure conjecture. He was probably involved in some kinda war with a local tribe. No telling what or how many he himself killed finally vengeance was paid only the killers remains were not preserved. I dunno, but it's part of human history wars never stop.

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Steven Watson ~ I didn’t say anything about war. But yeah, sounds good. I was just spoofing.

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You are stealing my likes by pinning that correction.

Yeah....I'm 5'2"....and weigh 157 lbs.....oh oh.......

Ah, I thought maybe you meant to say 10 stone...

No problem.

Wasn’t your fault Simon. You were reading the cue cards your assistant put together. Now go fire that guy.

He truly had a good life. Only the bois would understand.

MaxieMack yum

@Bodger the Badger not prince but marylyn Manson

He was pulling a Marilyn Manson

@Bodger the Badger He just wanted his own extra time and.... kiss

we are ancient for future peoples, study said our IQ will gradually increased till our smartest person become future average iq

They weren't dumb, they just worked with what they had and they were very good at it.

Even just surviving in their time required you to be an expert in many different things otherwise you'd end up eating a poison plant or starve the average person would've been a genius compared to our average person we just have easier access to information

@@terrencefairbairn3787 they had the same stuff as us

@@finnmurphy9158 No, not really, back then it was rare to find tools made our of copper and most things were made of flint because it was easier to find and easier to turn into tools; and on the other hand, we have modern steel working and with that we can make tools that are literally designed to cut through copper, so in conclusion, no, they didn't have the same stuff as us

That's pretty good lol 😂😂😂

@Marcus Zyker *Snatches Trophy from Osama Bin-Laden*

Ötzi and go seek😂

Hicx 16 your ruined the vibe

Noope db coopers the champ, no one was even lookin for poor old otzi

If no body they would assume he is still alive. Generally have to be missing for a long time before declared dead because can't find body. Ancient laws would vary by tribe though.

Have we ruled out that this was a neolithic drive-by shooting gone wrong and that Ötzi wasn't just at the wrong place at the wrong time?

I thought it was his yak

Brian Mino how was they supposed to find his relatives?

@@baldy4563 DNA is a crazy thing

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Actually all his relatives were in Austria. Guess Ötzi was an Austrian~

@@belisarius6949 Really? I heard they were on some island in the Mediterranean.

@@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 Biographics said in the video they found 11 relatives in Tirol.

@@belisarius6949 Okay.

That was only a bit above average for people back then (both the number of injuries and their severity and his age)

I vote this top comment.

but they left all loot there

_It's obvious, Otzi had SEXED entire villages and their livestock and therefore a manhunt of the Alp's notorious, "Rudolf Vaselino" ensued. Otsi's Hollowed-Antler Fleshlight, team of Oxen and 2-ton Porn collection had obviously been procured._

@@MAGGOT_VOMIT Otzi was a gamer and that's why he was offed.

@@ashkitt7719 _Just from the footage, it does seem like he had some form of Thumb-Palsey from a PS-3000BC controller._

Those numbers are insultingly low

@@ivanskas6983 if those numbers are low then i don't wanna see yours

@@ivanskas6983 my guy spent 30+ years playing skyrim I guess

Wowww I just did the math and what I said was so wrong

@@timytumper bruh. One year is around 8k hours good job

probably the shooters was so far away and had a telescope to confirm his death, and claim his bounty cause his a wanted man and his vertical line tattoos at his back confirms it how many men he slays

ACID .....well that explains your name

I really like this explanation, thanks.

@@WINDOWS94198 They didnt have telescopes back then

Men who saught vengeance on ortiz for laying the rod to thier women and getting them preg.

Let’s say each of our grandads & grandads before them lived on average 50 years (which could be an understatement) This would mean Otzi the iceman would’ve roamed the earth along side our 100th grandad, in the line of our male ancestry. A long time ago sure, but not as long as one would imagine. If we put the average life expectancy of our ancestral forefathers up 10 years from 50, we can sensibly bring the difference between ourselves and Otzi down from 100 grandads ago, to around 60-70 grandads/lifetimes ago.

@@jt0094 no, let's not say that, because it is ridiculous. people lived til 30. otzi was on borrowed time, you dimwit.

I would demand that I am receive an inheritance of his clothes and axe!

just a giant stick man lol

He was 5’2 110 pounds. Before I looked it up I was wondering that to and said no way that can be true.

5'2" 10 pound man would have been dehydrated most of body weight is water.

@@peterv1318 5'2" and 110 pound was not that unusual a Figure Skater or Gymnast about that size is close to that weight.

I scrolled into the comments specifically to see if anyone else caught that, and here it's someone else I watch and respect! 👌

@funkmasterjee If anything it's be badgers. The Alps are too far south for wolverines.

He was with people he knew. He had a nice meal with them and then, the poisonous plant in the food. Good point above about not taking the copper axe because people would know who killed their leader.

Trichuris infestation is often asymptomatic and when it does have symptoms, it mostly manifests as nonspecific low-intensity abdominal pain and general weakness, which can also be caused by many other diseases. Even today, it's easy to misdiagnose it or miss it, unless a microscopic examination for parasites in the feces is requested and reveal the worm's characteristic eggs. Unlike large roundworms, Trichuris worms are tiny and almost transparent, and can easily go unnoticed even if eliminated in the feces. So, Ötzi certainly didn't know he had a worm to eventually treat.

@@goytabr how do you know that? I once saw some tiny worms in my stank.

@@thomasneedham1224, I have a medical degree and additionally live in a tropical country where parasitic infestations are common. There are many kinds of parasitic worms and Trichuris infestation is not particularly nasty. The worms usually stay inside the guts, are only rarely eliminated in the feces (their eggs are constantly being shed, but they are microscopic and are not visible to the naked eye), and even when worms appear in the stools, they're so tiny and translucent that they usually go unnoticed. The symptoms (when they are present) are rarely intense and never specific, the kind of malaise and occasional mild pain that was likely a part of life at that time regardless of whether a person was infected with Trichuris or not.

I thot ferns are tropical. 🤔

lol XDDD lary is one of those dads who went to store and never came back XD

😂🤣😂 that made me chuckle.

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Not that old. The average life expectancy was skewed down by much higher infant mortality, and not as much by earlier death of those who survived to adulthood.

What if his back was the mapped terrain outlined. Spine being the valley and how many times he hiked up the mountain either side of it. Each with 4 lines maybe an elevation marking or how many times he hunted there? They never mentioned that on both of his thumbs webbing he had deep lacerations on both hands i wonder if he was held captive by another tribe and tortured or sacrificed?

@@albundy7133 and also disease/illnesses, but that doesn't mean that the actual physical ability/health of a 45 year old was any or much worse than today. He could very well still be fit, and probably more fit than avg. 45 year olds today

@@albundy7133 The average age of adult deaths is still around 35. I believe this man was an itinerant copper smelter who had a bag full of broken pieces of copper and maybe a finished piece or two which is what was stolen from him. Much more expensive than his axe and knife.

no they aren't much more expensive. Thats like saying the materials for a puma football boot are more expensive than the boot itself.@@matthewjohns1758

clear the head a bit

@@gregorhaines5595 Maybe eat some venison, a good hearty meal I'd say

Maybe he went there to die

Danny Landrum I like the idea there is some epic story of revenge combat and betrayal that put him on the run.

He didn't just go on a jaunt around the mountain. He had in his possession a knot of thongs in which each thong was tied in a different series of knots. This is a method of carrying a message. Otzi was a messenger.

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Nah back in BC the pagans would mark themselves in mourning when their loved ones died. Although the location is strange

Tear drops on my homie , think he caught some bodies ☠

@Age Restrictions it means he was a warrior who marked his body for every kill

Neolithic tramp stamp!! He was most likely a bar fly turning occasional tricks at the local watering hole.

The tattoos are where he had injuries or wear. My money is on medical treatment.

That’s why he wore his best pelt and brought his fanciest copper that day

You are welcome Kimberlay

IKR! Why do I love that little dude so much? He’s brought so much to this world and we don’t know anything about his personality. He could have been a creep for all we know, but somehow I don’t think so. So grateful for him... we now have so many answered questions. Merry holidays 🎄

My dad is related to him according to 23andme, and we're danish!

@FrozenVirus Everyone is related to everyone whose kids had kids if you go far back enough.

@William Linley yes

@@idapedersen5490 I'm pretty sure that everyone in europe is related to him...

@@Spoontamer4 he was a known bachelor and slinged his slong whenever he had the opportunity. An absolute legend🕺🏿

;)

Also vsauce michael

But the Binging with Babish guy is a different person. They're not the same, maybe they look similar...

Lady Gold R/wooooosh.

By the way the thumbnail picture looks, his living relative is Sean Penn.

i know you probably wont believe me but i live near his icegrave and my neighbour is actually a descendant of ötzi, like a dna tested one☺️

*Brad Pitt has an Otsi tatto

Charles Gaskin I was thinking Harvey Keitel

That was a pretty interesting fact actually! I would love to see some of the same research of Egyptian mummies

yeah that is very creepy

He looks like Wim Hof

Wim hof is his previous life.

This meme format is as old and dead as the ice man

Bob Sacamano 😂 😊😅😂🤣😆Hold my meme.

"Hold my ass" more like it

Ice cold

That's the way I want to go.

Legend

'That's cold' I see what you did there

Who could have imagined this would have consequences 5000 years later.

The place where he was found was fitting as well

@@J.Kunda98 Just needs a random dragon bossfight lol

"Don't scatter my ashes ,I'll just walk up there.

I hope no one is going to examine mine, they'd think the world had gone mad 😂

That's a weird and dangerous thought. Like great for science and all but no doubt I'll be unhealthy by their standards 😂😂

_and to think if that was me, they would've found my "Hollowed-Antler Fleshlight" in the bag and remains of the team of Oxen that was hauling my 2-ton Pron collection._

As long as my corpse is in the best dancing pose

All the drugs .. oh my

Didn't work then, did it? That's typical of the Homeopathic Bronze Age 4 u.

Although 2 b fair, it WAS curing him, until death complicated things.

Absolutely right! I can’t remember what herb they used to use to get rid of parasites, but it was one of those that would kill you if you ate too much. It’s on the website for the pharmacopoeia attached to the Mütter Museum at Penn State. Maybe it was the same thing? It looked similar.

Either that or he used it to speed up or numb his death

@@abdulkarimelnaas7595 Well, except for Marijuana

Yeah they want that sweet corpse cash when they display him in a museum.... for scientific purpose I guess

lol even better "the 5000 year old mummy was austrian/italian" ridicolous

Tirol is culturally german. South Tirol is currently occupied by Italy, but doesnt really belong to it.

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Doesn't it belong to the finder tho aka the person not 2 fucking countries it belongs to the people who found him originally not 2 random stupid countries no offence but they should have no claim to the dead body belongs to the human who found it God rabbit foxy stop tricking raging Shut up lolbit I can rage if I want - lolbit and funtime foxy

I'd want to die in a weird pose to mess with them. First thought.

@@TheOmegagoldfish Yeah, so that you don't fit in the scanners and all the other equipment.

They'd be absolutely puzzled by mine. And I'd do my very best to mess as much with them as possible... And my general health, my TBI and all the Leda I have to take would make them think up some amazing theories 😂🤣

He probably meant to say 100.

Considering the narrator's British accent, he probably meant "10 stone" or about 140 pounds...about right for a burly 5"2" male...

thankyou for pointing that out i repeated that part of the video so much thinking i just misheard him say that

This is why I'm reading the comments after I heard that.

I noticed as well, it was very confusing haha. He actually weighed 110 pounds, it's in the subtitles

The devil's in the details. While by no means poorly-made for its time, Otzi's gear was much, *much* more primitive than the fur trapper's.

@@stormisuedonym4599 7000 years more primitive tho?

To much red dead redemption for you

@@jake3768 technology doesn't grow like that, different people come up with similar ideas.

Except for the Copper Age tools and no gun

I kinda dont want to give these fuckers money after pulling off an "yeah go ahead and invest time and money to research this, we just wanna put the fella in a box to look at for 10 buckaronies"

They still do research on him and the museum is definitely worth visiting as it contains various exhibitions about the whole of the copper age

5th why do I feel old now lol

he used to give me nightmares when i was really young watching documentaries about him lol

Can you tell me how much he weighed in life, obviously it wasn’t 10lbs

Kadeo123321 - he meant to say 110 lbs. Which is what the assumed estimate is.

@@Kadeo-ms6qw Roughly 110 but that's only an estimate given time frozen

You're in luck - he's currently in office

@@CardinalTreehouse Lmao! Indeed he is.

Siberia !!!

Go to Australia and look at an aboriginal I think it's the closest thing alive today

@Jon Bjornssen And you're salty about a comment on RU-vid! Lmao, Orange man has very sensitive fans

Stop

Truly ahead of his time...

Do you have any series/documentaries you could recommend? I watched 'mummy forensics' here on RU-vid and I crave more.

@@Monnique23 I find BBC's History Cold Case to be very sensible, and the team of experts featured in the series approach the subjects with not just professional methods, but also a rare kind of warm, very "human" touch.

@@chickendrawsdogs3343 Thank you for taking your time to answer, I will check it out.

Yeah I second this. I live for forensic archeology stuff

I think the only person who DIDN'T notice was me ;)

I am thinking there is no reason to read more comments because that has made up most the comments so far.

We noticed. I was trying to do the math on how he gained 10 lbs after death. The correction is why I scrolled down. Now I'm satisfied.

I just assumed he meant to say 10 stone and accidentally said pounds.

@@Biographics All the comments these little slips of the tongue generate don't hurt either... ;)

He need some milk

🏅 Here is your stupid comment award. You earned it!

Nah he kept the strap, he was just caught lacking

As they say, “Don’t bring a knife to a bow and arrow fight.”

He was caught slippin so he got capped

😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😂🤣that comment felt so refreshing, everybody else is all geeky

Were the Arrow -Heads Flint or Copper?

That's not true though..... Primative arrow heads were too hard to make just to risk loosing them while hunting if they were to come loose..... Plus the tar holding them to the shaft with the leather straps would make interchangeable arrow heads impossible.

He may have been a bandit haunting the mountain trade routes. His knife had two types of human blood that was not his blood. Or he may have been a surgeon.

@BigDaddyCool42 Not when the video was posted, it was almost every comment and since I use captions I happened to see it is all, and as I was going to comment anyway about how interesting I found this, why not? :) Have a good one.

BigDaddyCool42 You’d be surprised dude

@filiolus Thanks for being a helping hand in the education of others 🙏 have a blessed day :)

@@khalifimamu998 Thank you :), have a wonderful day yourself.

Simple error, yes, but the huge error was in using imperial units instead of proper SI units

@EbberDeeMills count me in...

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Yep, and some druken, roudy Germans shot him with an arrow...cuz he was an Italian mob guy

Oh so that's why he brought his satanic goat coat

He wasn't killed by the mountain

No, it sounds like he was murdered. All I'm saying is that, yes, it's dangerous out there if you get caught in the snow.

While it is true, the time Ötzi lived was during a warmth period, so it was warmer than today.

And a million people watching you on their devices all over the world, who knows maybe I die and they find me in the next 6k years and they put me in a museum

TheDarkLord Satanas just try to die on a cold mountain

the nerve!

Imagine still seeing stuff while being dead, and to be suddenly surprised about people seeing you 6000 years later, but can’t express it in any way to them

MrIvanbeats meanwhile we also have antivaxxers and flat-earthers... 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not evolved, enlightened.

Yeah and we can’t even get a test for corona virus

JGfrm BrooKLynnn you are a straight hater lmao smh “we” means human beings and our technology. Why so salty?

I find it unbelievably amazing that you think we're one tiny bit more evolved than Otzi. In every possibly way except for technology, Otzi was our superior. Science many be awesome, but scientists are just plain old humans, and they screw up as much as any of us. If you believe much of anything science says, you aren't very old.

Fucking thank you.

Or almost ten stone.

Bruhhh 👏🏾

Lol

It's true, people were shorter back in the day.

Dr Do-Little that’s not a fact most of that is sugar pills... times put in to make it make sense

There is a lot of talk about them being much much older

@@earthbound2772 what? Did I have a stroke?

Dr Do-Little : evidence is trickling out the the pyramids are likely over 10,000 years old...

@@hertzair1186 You wanna back that up with YOUR sources for this?

Win hofman

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Nobody else survived very long in those days, natural selection weeded you out.

Maybe some country will clone him one day. Science is getting almost as scary as some science fiction these days. ;-)

-Read where many women wanted to be impregnated with his DNA. Anything sure, would not be born a socialist Democrat. ;

@@blogengeezer4507 Well, he WAS pretty cute.

"What I wanna know is Where's the caveman?"

Cornell Overbeeke, MD specifically 8-10 times more

@@DragonHunter24 what you weigh 80 -100LBs?

Dill Houston he’s probably American

Evolution dont mean that humans were shorter, there were tall people too, no iphones but smart people too

Go Hyuck Yourself damn man I still can’t believe my dude ötzi is dead. I was just hunting with him last week

Too soon, Roman. 😯

And the several other Bog Bodies that have been found in the UK as well as Scandinavia

If life expectancy for that period involves all the children that died before they reach the age of 5, then he wasnt that old. The children mortality in those times was very high. However, if you managed to become an adult, it wasnt that uncommon to reach his age, I believe.

Hey Ho, just because you don't know what you're talking about doesn't mean that the people who've dedicated their lives to studying it also don't.

@@ChuckNorrisCanSeeU You're right. The 20-30 year average is because of the high child mortality. Once you got passed that (and child birth), it wasn't that uncommon throughout history to reach 60-70 years (or older).

Supposedly I am related to Otzi. We share a lot of dna and also location. Pretty cool I think.

@@amybarb25 I would say that's very cool indeed :) Have a good day from Canada!

Lol ancient Europeans were part bamboo/hemp. Lightweight and sturdy.

Probably meant 10 stone, not 10lbs

@@nickhenman7549 No, 10 stone is 30 lbs. too much. He weighed about 110 lbs. in life.

@@anne-droid7739 one stone is 14 lbs. 10 ×14 =140lbs source was Google so it could be wrong.

@@liftedninja1607 Exactly. 10 stone is 30 lbs. too much. He weighed a bit less than 8 stone.

He is dead

@Wesley Winston link please. I can't seem to find it.

Otzi could not relate to the number 100 let alone 5000. In his world everything was smaller. The concept of fame would also not have existed. People only knew other people in their own community.

I feel like the idea of being discovered, then realizing he had in fact been murdered, would be distressing to the ice man. But if he's anything like modern men, he would've likely been at least curious. That's my guess anyway. Still, what an interesting historical figure.

He would thought nothing about it, propabally just minding his business, eating some animals and shooting arrows, you know.

explain please. interesting idea but i dont see how that would work

@@tuckerbrunson4110 he could have turned the bow sideways and placed the arrow so it was level and between the parallel lines on his wrist before he let loose of the arrow. Dont think of the modern way people hold the bow as this is thousands of years ago.

@@Contact_Info he must have had very long arms to be able to draw his bow and very very strong

@@izuqh9884 have you ever shot a bow and arrow? It's not so hard.

@@Contact_Infoyes i have shot a bow and arrow. I own 2 bows. Try shooting shooting a bow sideways to full draw

That's not too hard to imagine

was good until the GMOs part

@@thetrashpoliticdoctrine9964 Well,that's just the truth

This is so fucking hilarious yet very possible

@@jakubpociecha8819 Based on what evidence?