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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 08/30/2007 : 04:48:14
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Oetzi, the "Ice Man" of the Alps, had previously been considered to have been killed by an arrow under his collarbone. But now researchers believe the 5,000-year-old man died as a result of blunt force trauma to his head. ROME, Italy: Researchers studying Iceman, the 5,000-year-old mummy found frozen in the Italian Alps, have come up with a new theory for how he died, saying he died from head trauma, not by bleeding to death from an arrow.
Just two months ago, researchers in Switzerland published an article in the Journal of Archaeological Science saying the mummy — also known as Oetzi — had died after the arrow tore a hole in an artery beneath his left collarbone, leading to massive loss of blood, shock and heart attack.
But radiologists, pathologists and other researchers, using new forensic information and CAT scans, said Tuesday they believed that the blood loss from the arrow wound only made Oetzi lose consciousness. They believe he died either by hitting his head on a rock when he passed out or because his aggressor attacked him again with a blow to the head. |
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The Rat
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Canada
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Posted - 08/30/2007 : 05:10:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Oetzi, the "Ice Man" of the Alps, had previously been considered to have been killed by an arrow under his collarbone. But now researchers believe the 5,000-year-old man died as a result of blunt force trauma to his head. |
Hmmm... I seem to recall that a head-bashing was the preferred tactic of the notorious Og 'The Dog' Gambini, a known mastodon buggerer with previous convictions for rock theft and musk ox rustling. He lived in the next cave to Oetzi, and the two had words on several occasions. I'll put out an APB.
Thanks for the tip!
Inspector Flarg O'Hoolihan, Alps precinct
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/30/2007 : 05:18:13 [Permalink]
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And Og was the quiet type, generally keeping to himself. Very suspicious.
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Pathologists closer to fingering Oetzi's murderer
