Both. He was all the way up in the Alps and got shot up there. IDK if he died from the arrow wound or from exposure or a combination of both, but i doubt he would have died on that day if he would not have had the person who shot him on his trail. OFC it’s hard to reconstruct after all this time even when the remains are surprisingly well preserved by the ice.
Also i just looked this up, it was 5300 years ago, not 8000.
I’m more responding to the concept of violating human remains to produce something for human consumption than this specific case which I am unfamiliar with.
In this specific case, the yeasts were discovered while partially thawing the mummy to take tissue samples. It took over three months of cultivating to arrive at something that could actually be used to make sourdough, so these are not yeast bacteria that have ever actually been in Ötzi’s gut themselves. Still feels weird, but i’d say it’s not quite in the same ballpark as British colonizers grinding Egyptian mummies into powder to ingest them as “medicine”.
i mean, these are not going anywhere, they are in a frozen vault somewhere in a museum in Northern Italy. Every once in a while, somebody comes up with a new article about how they’ve recreated his clothing or his tools or if he had any health conditions or smth like that
Didn’t he die crossing a glacier tho?
Both. He was all the way up in the Alps and got shot up there. IDK if he died from the arrow wound or from exposure or a combination of both, but i doubt he would have died on that day if he would not have had the person who shot him on his trail. OFC it’s hard to reconstruct after all this time even when the remains are surprisingly well preserved by the ice.
Also i just looked this up, it was 5300 years ago, not 8000.
I’m more responding to the concept of violating human remains to produce something for human consumption than this specific case which I am unfamiliar with.
In this specific case, the yeasts were discovered while partially thawing the mummy to take tissue samples. It took over three months of cultivating to arrive at something that could actually be used to make sourdough, so these are not yeast bacteria that have ever actually been in Ötzi’s gut themselves. Still feels weird, but i’d say it’s not quite in the same ballpark as British colonizers grinding Egyptian mummies into powder to ingest them as “medicine”.
Interesting, I somehow didn’t realize they were still poking around Ötzi’s remains. Thanks for the info!
i mean, these are not going anywhere, they are in a frozen vault somewhere in a museum in Northern Italy. Every once in a while, somebody comes up with a new article about how they’ve recreated his clothing or his tools or if he had any health conditions or smth like that