Ötzi the Iceman: A 5,000-Year-Old True Crime Murder Mystery | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

[@bethylawson480]

I read that Otzis hip was damaged by a jackhammer when he was being removed from the ice. Video of his un-icing is horrible. Its a wonder he survived intact as much as he did

[@mccorrect3470]

Seriously they just flipped and tossed it around

[@TomHill-xh7ec]

When he was first discovered, they thought he'd been murdered in the last few months or years, not thousands of years. It wasn't scientists removing a priceless relic from the ice, it was the local police and medical examiner. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi#Discovery

[@skatiesadiemator5948]

That's why I thought

[@kuriboh635]

It was an ice axe in the video they hit his hip, damaging it and his knife before tossing the knife to the side, thinking it was just a piece of junk.

[@garafanvou6586]

First dibs will do that to a person

[@anamartins3223]

Otzi never thought that over 5000 years later he was going to be famous and in a museum!!! Not bad Otzi!!!

[@buggalujuju]

I came here to say the same thing! Haha he never could have imagined when he was alive, that we would become so valuable and beloved by the world. So amazing!

[@nagone11]

I'm sure he didn't plan it, like I'm sure he didn't plan to get shot with an arrow and slump to his end either..

[@buggalujuju]

@nagone11 uhmmmm duh?

[@nagone11]

@@buggalujuju Uhmm duh!!

[@Road_Rash]

He had no concept of a museum, seeing how they didn't exist at the time...

[@lorrieshigley3625]

I so wish they had also done a reconstruction of Uttsie’s whole facial features as he looked while alive!

[@paulabuck5976]

Me too!

[@SteveGrin]

Right? I'm struggling with the point of duplicating the mummy. I get the preservation aspect, but it seems like they could have just stored the scan and reproduced it should the need arise.

[@delacruztaylor]

Colossal let down, I see the point of them recreating the mummy, but put a goddam face on the guy...........haha

[@sinshamsh11]

I believe his face was reconstructed elsewhere. Do a quick google search :)

[@grouchyolddan]

That's what it sounded like it was what they were doing until the repetition keeps happening and you're half way in lol

[@mikewazowski350]

It's amazing they recovered anything. The people who removed him from the ice obviously were not professionals. I am in shock.

[@LexieEclectic]

YEAAAAAAH😳

[@JeffBrown-vn1xe]

Please keep all.away. it's my son I need my papers on my princess dna and righteous rightful royalty. My men do not no who is being hurt. Tell Justin n his brothers. I've found so many holy relics tell nick groff try being with Alyssa see If it'll help. Don't trust anyone. Suits wa t help us. I'm Not who Dan says I am. Put wrinkly with co co. They with Bentley and do not turn selves n. I have no ear coach. Money gone 100,000,000 was dropped off for release so what prob. Get mask off everyone. 600 year old vampire is here he was stuck in an imprisonment for 300 years. They thought it was a suit and tried to protect selves. Tell Blake not trust anyone we no or kin just for saftey 20:44 l not the game. Mj please i gotu its prob one button to hold n keep safe n stop pain. Get out ground above is only safe place. My family is not tough enough or brave enough to keep from turning kids in

[@beesechurger9464]

​@@JeffBrown-vn1xe mythical youtube comment 🤑🙏

[@hansj2468]

@@JeffBrown-vn1xe I had a stroke reading that. Either a terrible Google Translate job or a full on schizophrenic.

[@thegoodguy44]

@@JeffBrown-vn1xe I will help you!

[@torrilarsen6503]

We need an update. Forensic studies have come a long way in the past few years.

[@avalondreaming1433]

Isn't this documentary 5 or 6 years old?

[@dlemmo9006]

​@@avalondreaming1433 its from 2016

[@higgsmerino3925]

There are many recent updated docs, some on on you tube. Google them.

[@av1421]

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[@mattiemathis9549]

I heard they did new testing in 2023. All I remember is they had a clearer idea of his DNA and they found some living “relatives” somewhere in Italy , I think. But don’t quote me. It’s on YT. Something like new iceman dna findings.

[@shanghunter7697]

The 1st two men who found the body WERE damaging a LOT of evidence/material and body. Even stepping on the mid mass/back of his body. I remember when the body was 1st found both Italy and the swiss didn't want to claim the body due to the paperwork ect ect, but when both countries found out exactly how old he was a fight began regarding who's exact country he was on......Unreal !!

[@OanhSchlesinger]

Wow. That’s good information. Thanks!

[@BriscoeRodgers]

This is fascinating.

[@TheBatugan77]

CSI should have processed the scene. 😮😯😲

[@vampirina-vp7op]

It was a husband & wife hiking that discovered him not 2 men. The people that damaged him trying to remove his body damaged it will a jack hammer I believe.

[@clarkrobertson7982]

They used hiking poles to dig him out. Clothing, etc., was damaged. Initially, it was thought that this was a recent death. Lesson in not making assumptions.

[@martaholmes4287]

If they were worried about bacterial/viral contamination, why were some of these researchers not wearing their mask over there nose? One big sneeze could harm this mummy.

[@martaholmes4287]

@@susanb2015 That's why they were wearing them. It was stated in the video that viral/bacterial contamination could cause deterioration.

[@martaholmes4287]

@@susanb2015 Did you watch the program?

[@SummerSun-sg3wf]

It amazes me that people who have never done anything with thier lives say this

[@childcrone]

I was taken aback by that, too. You'd think they know better. Sneezing of course, but even just breathing.

[@ti-lo5hy]

Why not go in with fully enclosed suits? The room wasn't even refrigerated, there was no steam from the observers breathing..

[@keithwald5349]

I remember being so fascinated when first hearing about this discovery. Imagine a human who lived at the dawn of history, after "caveman" times but still in the nascency of the times of language and architecture. What were his life experiences? With whom did he interact? What was a typical day like for him? What language(s) did he speak? Endless questions.

[@personalfinancialjourney]

Me too. I remember his discovery in National Geographic when I was a child.

[@MrFriiy]

He walked around looking for something to screw or eat…. If he got cold he built a fire or wore more clothes, he carried around a stick to achieve his first two goals.. screwing and eating.

[@MadBull.34]

"Ötzi's killer would eventually be forgotten, but Ötzi, who lay slain, would continue to tell the world his story."

[@michaelisshort-ll7ug]

Frfr

[@ashish282]

You believe that life's purpose is to be remembered and have a legacy. What if they didn't have same believe. Have a good life matters not afterlife

[@thegoodguy44]

They know who killed him. Recent documents were analysed, found in his possession.

[@volovolo_]

​@@ashish282 Afterlife matters

[@TaterChip91]

3:19 That man LITERALLY stepped right in the middle of his back

[@BangBang-hk4rg]

I saw that too! 🤣

[@AuroraDarlingRN]

I was stunned when I watched those three fools hacking his body out of the ice standing on top of him, throwing his belongings I was mortified. A five-year-old knows not to touch it, not to disturb it, no matter if the person died yesterday or 5000 years ago let alone three grown men. They should be ashamed, and nothing is mentioned of it in the documentary. You see someone hurt on the side of the road and you know not to move them and call 911 what the hell was their excuse?

[@thomasgregorovich7976]

Is abuse of a corpse a felony or a misdemeanor here in the US??

[@Aeoxmusic]

it had frozen solid ice over that area lol, ice is hard

[@HollyMoore-wo2mh]

It was painful to watch. Yeah it was 1991 but GOOD GRIEF.

[@yanina.korolko]

The "tinder mushroom" 34:47 ...Chaga mushrooms or true tinder fungus, is a survivalist or bushman’s multi tool fungus. The dried light brown inside of chaga is used to start fires as the smallest spark can ignite it. The smoke from burning chaga is a mosquito repellent and a medicinal tea is made from chaga.

[@swainscheps]

Excellent info - thanks!

[@shanghunter7697]

Not only that, if you know how to do it, you can keep a chunk of chaga lit/ember for DAYS. I drink a cup of chaga tea every other day since 1865......NOT a typo, just saying (longevity).

[@geraldhoskins2933]

Chaga is good for you but you wont live 150 + years drinking it .

[@OanhSchlesinger]

@@shanghunter7697😂😂

[@shanghunter7697]

@@OanhSchlesinger Isn't that funny, no one can live that long right ? We all age and die because we THINK we have too.

[@grump9001]

"He continues to generate this BODY of information.." Lol you were so proud of that one

[@Inguiasu]

Body Of Information: the story of his life after death. Not in heaven or hell; but here on EARTH. We end up where we began.

[@mackpines]

Once again, another outstanding NOVA documentary. I can’t thank PBS enough for producing these high quality shows.

[@pbbunnyz1784]

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[@variyasalo2581]

I love Nova!

[@brooksequine7621]

I concur !

[@hsmd4533]

Let’s all appreciate that the documentary was factual and didn’t contain woke nonsense. I was prepared for a story about how Otzi was an underprivileged, persecuted but highly intelligent black man mercilessly killed by white people because…racism.

[@michaelrains64295]

Except this is a terribly repetitive and superficial documentary on a truly fascinating topic. I don’t find it remotely “high quality.” I find it sorely lacking.

[@kyleighwhite1409]

It’s crazy to know that the ailments and illnesses that are rampant today and the health issues that people have today are the same things that people then had to deal with WITHOUT any kinda of medical care. The pain people went through and just had to endure it and still live.

[@thatzwhat]

The scientists in this video were better at diagnosing Otzi's maladies than my physician is at diagnosing mine.

[@jackiemack8653]

@@gadidakodaka Guess that's not true since he had Lyme disease, arthritis and predisposed to heart disease. He was estimated to be only 45 years old. Ok an arrow probably killed him but he was not in stellar health. He was probably in chronic pain.

[@stevens1-o7s]

And toothaches

[@nancyeaton731]

@@stevens1-o7s Even a simple tooth infection could be fatal. People had so many pitfalls ahead of them as they aged back then.

[@stevens1-o7s]

@@nancyeaton731 Yeah true it sucks how vulnerable the teeth/gums are too that stuff

[@HellOnWheel]

It's a shame the people who found him just ripped off his clothes in chunks. Why on earth did they disturb it before experts got there??

[@DuangRungsaengchan]

Because they were ignorant, they didn't know what they were supposed to do.

[@emarieburson8846]

I know! It made me so sad bc I wonder how much we could have learned

[@BangBang-hk4rg]

They were trying to find his wallet to see if there was any money in it before the cops got there 🤣

[@higgsmerino3925]

THOSE WERE THE EXPERTS! (in 1991). Beyond sad. There are better docs out there now also.

[@BABUROBINSON]

Theres always a loser in the bunch who tries to make a dry ass joke... smh... pathetic

[@Linda-sq2ti]

Watching reconstruction of a person who lived thousands of years ago is amazing to watch .

[@odetoclear]

ötzi is the reason i want to become an archeologist, ever since i read about him in a donald duck magazine when i was 8 i was fascinated with mummies, wether made by nature or (especially) ancient civilizations. thanks for sparking this interest in me, ötzi, and rest in peace

[@lilym1137]

touching it with bare hands is CRAZY

[@CrackberryMe]

I thought the same thing. No gloves 🧤 is a NOPE.

[@DesiderataSanctuary]

"Who invented 'The Dab'?" "5,000 years ago, there was an ice man..."

[@yvonneschermerhorn866]

Very funny! I didn't pick up on that! Love the humor.😂

[@craignelson3965]

Lol

[@joenewman6494]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pilotboy217]

😂😂PIPE IT UP

[@catherinekenyon7555]

Got to see a sneak preview of this documentary years ago in Kansas City. Afterwards there was a question and answer session with Mr. Staab. What a fun event!

[@OanhSchlesinger]

I lived in Kansas City for years. Right at Power & Light District on Grand Ave. Didn’t realize how much I missed it until I moved away 😢

[@robbyjobarton2637]

They never give the earlier man the smarts he or she really had. Let’s face it there are amazing creations all over the world that took a lot of 🧠 power to create

[@peterquinn2997]

It was probably no different than humans today. Back then I’m sure they had both geniuses and idiots.

[@JadedLady]

My husband and I always have heated disagreements when it comes to the peoples who came before today. For years he was so stuck on the idea that "cavemen" were the stereotypical caveman. It has taken me years to get him to even be open to the fact they had to be much smarter than the credit given to them.

[@stevens1-o7s]

@@peterquinn2997 Unless you lived in a structured society like ancient greece you probably had to be fairly intelligent to survive

[@annonce4133]

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[@annonce4133]

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[@joyciejd9673]

Saw this years ago and loved it. Delighted to see it again.

[@kennethflorek8532]

Copyright 2016.

[@EEsmalls]

​@kennethflorek8532 oh dang really? I was hoping it was newer since it was just posted recently.

[@kennethflorek8532]

@@EEsmalls Me too. Besides re-broadcasting old episodes of various series, with the new ones, PBS does reframing from old formats preceding 1080. (So without letterboxing.) Recently it has become practical to digitally reprocess things on film to get better resolution, and better color, than the original (not just upscaling) by using more than one frame of the original and the fact that the registration frame-to-frame was not perfect, although I doubt PBS is going this.

[@purplepeople9298]

This would be interesting if we could see what he would have looked like before he died! But the information that he has provided us is amazing

[@barryjive1104]

This is exactly what I hoped for too. I personally don't find replications of original objects very interesting. There are better uses for an artist's talents than making a 1:1 scale model of a corpse.

[@OanhSchlesinger]

@@barryjive1104not in this case. A learning tool for the young and old.

[@debbralehrman5957]

I have seen pictures of what they think he did look like. There is a museum dedicated specifically to him. I think they have even done a physical reconstruction of what he would have look like in life.

[@debbralehrman5957]

I have seen pictures of what they think he did look like. There is a museum dedicated specifically to him. I think they have even done a physical reconstruction of what he would have look like in life.

[@debbralehrman5957]

I have seen pictures of what they think he did look like. There is a museum dedicated specifically to him. I think they have even done a physical reconstruction of what he would have look like in life.

[@alisterzarkar7163]

The best part of this program was Gary and his work. The contribution these guys make to the education and imagination of kids seeing these works.

[@dsoutherland1747]

The sculptor Gary was nervous about how his work would be critiqued. (I was nervous for him too). Soon he was smiling in relief as his creation was awed and amazed at. He did a superb job as an artist/sculptor. Congrats Gary.

[@TwinsBigLikeTia]

I've been seeing his work all my life and never knew! The dinosaurs looking into the building are part of the Indianapolis Children's Museum. He has contributed to my love of dinosaurs and anthropology from the earliest age, his work is incredible!

[@SteveJohnson-r2y]

I forgot how great these NOVA programs are.

[@track1949]

Don't look for them ever again if MAGA/ Republicans get total control. They will end this show and the rest of PBS and NPR. It will be another version of them banning books.

[@FDguy343]

That dude was laying there for 3 millenniums before Jesus Christ even showed up, people. Over 3,000 years before the son of God walked the earth. It's almost incomprehensible to even begin to try and fathom the amount of time that his body was laying in that ice, all while staying preserved. How unbelievably amazing this story is. And the best part is we are still learning more about him to this very day! Very cool!

[@koki84ji7]

***Citation needed

[@Zamolxess]

Before god created the earth!😅

[@IDGplayz]

@@Zamolxessno

[@ephgm]

Ötzi: "I used to be an adventurer, like you, until I took an arrow to the back."

[@alnorris1954]

Atleast it wasn't a gay arroy😄

[@jyeung222]

Wow, I was introduced to the Ice Man as a 3rd grader from those discovery magazine back in 2003... I remembering being so in awe of him when reading the article.

[@Varphi_]

Same!!

[@susanlee298]

This was pretty fascinating. Interesting to see so many teams working together to tell us about his life.

[@Errcyco]

There’s bodies on Mount Everest that are 80 years old that are broken apart and mangled. It’s absolutely amazing this body churned through glaciers for 5,000 years and stayed in tact. It’s like one in a billion

[@MetalPcAngel]

We need more of the NOVA documentaries on here, it's tiring to see many of the good ones locked away in that paywall.

[@chrisxschmidt]

Otzi never disappoints!

[@saltybuttpepper1766]

bro Who R U 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@beesod6412]

Thanks for feeding my brain for the last 35 years!

[@catchaser52]

Agree. Great videos.

[@OanhSchlesinger]

Indeed!

[@mkhanman12345]

I’m about to feed my brain. Glad this is for the public.

[@TheAutistiXBand]

This was a wonderful documentary though I also had read that the damage to his leg was caused by people digging him out of the ice after his discovery. My understanding wax that the couple who initially found him thought it was someone murdered not long ago. I’ve been to Bolzano to the museum twice and have stared at Otzi and his artifacts with complete awe. I’ve read several books. In my family he is known as my ‘boyfriend’ as I am so ‘besotted’ with him, reading books, seeing documentaries, etc!

[@Allegedly..Angela]

Very cool episode. I saw the first one and this is a treat- an update on what they are learning about him!

[@OanhSchlesinger]

I remember reading about The Iceman in National Geographic years ago.

[@usgalsen]

3:18 The lunatic steps on him. Wow, he shows absolutely no regard for the corpse. He's the cold blooded iceman.

[@dawnadriana1764]

Beautiful, emotional, incredible. I wept to think of this human being dying alone on the mountain, and rescued 5000 years later. My grandmother was born in Sardenia and I thought of her and how he could have been an ancestor.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

If he's her ancestor he's yours too. Perhaps you can find out through DNA?

[@OanhSchlesinger]

No you can’t take possession of the Iceman. And no you can’t get reparations for keeping him captive and enslaved after death.

[@momv2pa]

That was amazing. Just after I had my son in 1995, I spent many hours reading a book about the Iceman. It was so very interesting. This video was incredibly informative. I especially enjoyed hearing about the DNA research. Well done-thank you!

[@markvonwisco7369]

I was in grad school at the Uni Salzburg when Ötzi was discovered. It was a huge news story in all the Austrian newspapers at the time.

[@rameyzamora1018]

My fave scientist is the guy wearing his protective face mask under his nose. C'mon, man!

[@SolaceEasy]

He hasn't breathed out of his nose since the millennium.

[@variyasalo2581]

Since the pandemic, we've all become more aware of how to wear a facemask.

[@brooksequine7621]

Oh my ... You people are everywhere . SMH ...😮 Please educate yourselves or tighten your masks .

[@sagesleuth]

👏👏👏👏

[@MrJsv650]

Like good 🐑 ​@@variyasalo2581

[@chikkinnuggits]

Gary Staab has a really cool job. Such a talented artist!

[@SILVERSTREAK925]

Very interesting documentary. The artist in Kearney, Mo. did a great job recreating a replica of Otzi.

[@OanhSchlesinger]

Been to Kearney. He’s probably the most famous guy in town.

[@robertpaulson2052]

Think about how strange life and things are. He could have never comprehended that this is what would become of him. Murdered, unfortunately, frozen and preserved for thousands of years, found by people in world stranger than he could imagine, world famous and heavily studied. This guy was in ice through the entirety of the Roman Empire and then some. Makes you wonder what else is out there to be found.

[@kross1261]

Watching this on Nova right now and this popped up on KZbin.

[@GrungeHistory]

The first human in history to ever do the dab

[@yanceydavenport8657]

HAHAHA 🤣!! 👍😅

[@wdking8833]

Kudos to the artists who recreated Otzi. A truly wonderful job. I doubt that if shown Otzi and his "twin" side by side, most people, even on close inspection, could tell them apart. A truly awesome job by incredibly talented artists.

[@joesands8860]

I have always wondered what is still buried in ice another this planet. I have heard of the wooly rhinos, elephants, cats and others found in permafrost along with all the ancient tools found at melting glaciers, but I would love to hear of a frozen Neanderthal man in ice somewhere.

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

Well i guess we might find some of that stuff now. With all the glaciers melting & whatnot. 😢

[@jeremias-serus]

Agreed. I've believed for a while now that someday we will find a naturally preserved Neanderthal mummy somewhere deep under ice in Central or Northern Europe. Being able to map the genome of a non-modern human would be one of the most incredible achievements.

[@jackiemack8653]

I would like to know who his modern relatives were

[@childcrone]

@@jeremias-serus Search up The Neanderthal Genome Project; it HAS been mapped. There are a few ancestry test services that can tell you how much Neanderthal you have in your DNA.

[@remasteredvanity]

@@jeremias-serus😊qq

[@johnsonjohnson4725]

I had no idea Lyme disease was that old!!! The more we think we know, the more re realize how little we know.

[@OanhSchlesinger]

I had no idea it was encoded in DNA. Fascinating!

[@Leigh-says-stuff]

@@OanhSchlesingerthe tissue sample they took from him had the remains of some of the Lyme disease bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferi) in it. We mostly know it as a rash today, but if it’s not treated, the bacteria will spread throughout the body and damage muscles, joints, and organs.

[@AryaTheGermanic]

Otzi my guy made it from a unpopular and unknown man to a superstar of history respect my guy

[@AuroraDarlingRN]

I can’t imagine how cold he must’ve been. It’s snowing and I let the dog out to use the bathroom and I’m freezing with a hoodie, sweatshirt and sweatpants on and this man climbed the Alps with shoes made of grass and straw.. how can I ever complain again?

[@EmilyKinny]

His shoes were replicated and professional mountain climbers used them and said they were warm and comfortable: "The boots’ performance was even tested and later praised by experienced hikers and climbers who tried them out in extreme conditions. Vaclav Patek, a Czech mountaineer who took part in the testing, described them as surprisingly cozy, warm, and comfortable, maybe even better than some modern models of footwear." Most of the materials our ancestors used were much better adapted for their climates than any of the synthetic crap we create today. They weren't idiots. They knew how to stay comfortable (and alive) in their environments, far more than we do with our AC and central heating and civilization all around.

[@jessyjulie5506]

​@@EmilyKinnyhe was used to it. Studies on feral children show they can run naked in the snow or have an ice cold bath without really caring.

[@astronomicalreason9807]

Imagine if someone told you in 5,000 years future humans will find your frozen body, study it, and create a replica using a 3D printer

[@brooksequine7621]

I'd be all for that ! I thought about this before Utzi's time because I've been pinned & plated together so many times, had so many spinal surgeries that removed bone ( but I'm still carrying on ) that I'd be seen as a horseman ( due to the changes in my hips , knees , ankles & spine ) then the rest would be such a super mystery for someone to unravel ! Wouldn't it be glorious ! 🎉❤😊😊

[@teresasardinas5642]

Fantastic! I was mesmerized by this video and the information that it provides, and the effort of everybody involved; great job! Thank you!!!!! I love it. My maternal Haplogroup is K, although not exactly the same haplotype as Ötzi, and my oldest documented ancestor was in the island of Minorca, in the Mediterranean Sea, close to Sardinia!

[@djquinn11]

How far back did that go?

[@jamesleonard2870]

You kinda sound like Ottzi. Lols. Just joking =]

[@randomvintagefilm273]

I'm matched to Chedder man in England. I uploaded my DNA to the ancient DNA site MyTrueAncestry

[@ReneeHorth]

What an amazing replica! Such a wonderful journey, of discovering things about this long dead man !

[@AustinB.3322]

I remember as a kid thinking he had laid down on the arm to relieve the pressure. I had a sore shoulder a lot back then and sometimes to lay like that takes the pressure off.

[@lynnseredych3306]

Fascinating! I've always enjoyed watching Nova.

[@TimeTheory2099]

Thanks Nova on PBS 👍

[@fanny3942]

Very fascinating documentary. I loved it 😍 thank you .

[@Delulubooklover]

I read a book about this when I was in I think third grade and I had nightmares about it for weeks until I realized he's been dead for literally thousands of years and isn't coming back anytime soon. And from then I realized that his story and what we can learn from his remains is amazing

[@monav4062]

I haven't finished the video -- I'm at the part where they're talking about how the iceman has over 60 tattoos, mainly just short lines in certain areas. I'm not a scientist or a medical doctor, but I can give you the answer as to why his tattoos existed and that's because the iceman was treated by someone who knew about acupuncture!! He would go to see the acupuncturist in his local village! And, the acupuncturist being the professional that he was, told the iceman that he had to tattoo lines in all of the places that the iceman had pain! Can you imagine there were doctors who knew about acupuncturing 5,000 years ago? Amazing!

[@daisyadele967]

That's what I was thinking! So that practice is very old.

[@higgsmerino3925]

Don't be sexist...she does good sticking.

His tattoos represent the 5th Element

[@neonmeate8180]

Can you cite your source stating that his tattoos had to do with acupuncture?

[@monav4062]

@@neonmeate8180 My source is -- "Common Sense". This guy was a 'repeat' customer of the local village acupuncturist -- so the acupuncturist marked his body in all of the familiar places for faster relief, he didn't need to re-map this man's body for his pain every time. It isn't much of a leap -- whoever did his tattoos was already using a 'needle' of some sort to transfer the 'ink' into his skin -- so why would it be hard to see him using other needles to go much deeper into the areas that hurt? Go back and review the part of this video showing where all of his tattoos were located, it shows that the short lines were above all of his areas of chronic pain. If you would like to experiment on your own body of how to relieve pain -- the next time you find yourself hurting, maybe you have a muscle cramp after having done a lot of walking? Take your hand, maybe using your thumb, and place it directly in the area of the pain apply pressure and hold it there for a few minutes -- your pain will subside. Acupressure works! I have chronic back pain from having been in a car accident and I use acupressure on my back all of the time. You can make simple tools by taking a pair of thick men's socks and balling them up together and then you place the balled-up socks in between the back of your chair (I use my computer chair) and your back where the pain is located. You hold it there by pressing your back into the back of the chair with the socks in between and the pain will go away with the pressure of the socks pushing into the area of the pain. It works like a charm every time! When you apply pressure to the areas of pain the pressure relieves the pain and once the pain subsides it will allow your muscles to relax and they won't be tensed up any longer. I've gotten so good at it that I can literally lift the collapsing disk in my spine where it's pinching together and all of my pain melts away! No need for drugs or even over the counter meds. .

[@OanhSchlesinger]

Wow. The most fascinating video I ever watched. The narrator- superb! Thank you PBS 🤓

[@peterolbrisch8970]

That poor guy needs a makeover. They have people who could recreate what he looked like when he was alive.

[@user-useff]

I am amazed the shipping companies got it there without damage.

[@lambeausouth1]

Absolutely amazing! One of if not the most important finds in human history!

[@metsrus]

I remember reading about Otzi in 1992 in 6th grade class. Good to know he has become sorta of a mummy rockstar.

[@minasan6337]

50:52 the model of otzi that gary made is so AMAZING like the amount of detail put in is insane

[@LeftToWrite006]

The museum that has the body and the stuff he was found with is in Bolzano, Italy. It is well-worth the visit.

[@smadaf]

It's great that PBS is making so much _Nova_ stuff available on KZbin now. It’s a shame, though, that, with all their resources, they couldn't get anybody to make the narrator rhyme the "Ö" in "Ötzi" with the "oo" in "book" and "good" instead of the "oo" in "boot" and "food". It's like spending an entire documentary talking about Adolf "Hightler" or George "Wayshington".

[@ikutiap5923]

EXACTLY!!!!! "Ö"

[@zaphodbeeblebrox8640]

Yes, the narrator is very ignorant. There is no Uttsie, the name is Ötzi. "Ö" more or less as in "early". The word comes from "Ötztaler Alpen", the mountain group, where the body was found. Its boundaries are: - Reschenpass 1508 m - Stiller Bach - Inntal - Ötztal - Timmelsjoch 2474 m - Passeier - Etschtal - Reschenpass. So, You see that the names last origin is the Ötztal. And this comes from the old German word "etz" for meadow (Tollmann 1986).

[@laurahemenway4608]

I've been following Ötzi for years. How fascinating.

[@dominicaddesa154]

Legend has it, Otzi was a traveling extended warranty salesman.

[@QuarrySolution9454]

Thanks to the people, they didn’t leave it to rot. If left unattended, it may disappear due to the warm atmosphere and melting ice. Scavengers, birds or mammals could completely destroy it. But experts were able to extract it with less damage to things and DNA. But first of all, thank you again for taking care of the find.

[@rajun1231]

Truly fascinating and thought provoking. How about an update on the research done since this NOVA docu was produced?

[@yanina.korolko]

New, high-coverage genome with much less modern human contamination has been published in 2023. 47:44 ... 2023 study on Ötzi's genome found a very high proportion (90%) of Anatolian-farmer-related ancestry - in fact, the highest among European populations of the same time. Also, examining the genetic sites involved in phenotypical traits, the authors were able to predict that the Iceman, among other things, had darker skin than present-day Europeans, but not as dark as the Mesolithic Western Hunter Gatherers, was affected by baldness, and suffered from obesity-related metabolic disorders. The Cambridge World History of Violence (2020) cited Ötzi as evidence of prehistoric warfare

[@tedbomba6631]

Have any of those brilliant scientists and experts even considered the possibility that Ötzi might have been both a hunter and a gathere ? As is often said, ' man does not live by bread alone '. Many people do consume meat and vegetables together.

[@OanhSchlesinger]

Hunter / Gatherer, Farmer, etc is how groups of time are recorded. His diet was diverse as seen by his stomach contents.

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

Um. Yeah, the brilliant scientists did ascertain he was a "Hunter - Gatherer" That is the classification they stuck on him. As opposed to "Farmer". Hunter Gatherer, hunts animals, and forages along their way. Pick berries, gather seeds. They gather up what Nature provides. What they do NOT do is FARM. As in, deliberately put seeds in the ground and nurture the crop. Yep, those brilliant scientists did figure out he ate more than meat. They found both meat & grains in his stomach. Hence, they dubbed him a "Hunter - Gatherer".

[@johnrandolph6121]

He's the most studied man in history but it took them 10 years to notice he has an arrowhead in him?

[@judigrumm7190]

I thought that too! Who had custody?? The original discoverers were horrible.

[@Gnomelander1400]

So many idiots working on him. The guys who dug him up literally step on top of him and pickaxe his body, unaware of damaging his bones and organs.

[@justicewillprevail1106]

Uttssie had a rough life. Hope he's been rest easy since departure.

[@nickhowatson4745]

5,000 years my Iceman Otzi out here crankin' that Soulja Boy like it's 2007

[@kamiw5864]

A note about the pain they speculate endured during all the stick and poke tattoos- it was likely nothing compared to everything else he experienced and they probably didn’t experience pain as we do now, not by a long shot. I imagine their threshold was much, much higher then. Also, the time it took was immense but they had the time back then.

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

Right. No social media to occupy them. 😮

[@kamiw5864]

@@darlenelarochelle4011 actually it isn’t quite that simple though I understand why you mentioned it. Social media is a major distraction today, yes.

[@TheVeek192]

Days were the same length then as they are now. We have the same amount of time that they did. We make choices about how we spend our time. We think that we're busier, but we're not.

[@kamiw5864]

@@TheVeek192 , nailed it.

[@projectionv.accountability1010]

What?? What are you basing any of that on? You're just throwing out bits of opinion as if it's anything more than just bits of opinion. Ridiculous.

[@walterulasinksi7031]

While he lived in a transitional age, not all regions could support both grain farming and livestock. And no grain farmer would use their grain stocks to feed livestock. So there would still be the use of hunters for native livestock such as Ibex. Livestock farming. Normally consists of grasslands which compete with grain plants like einkorn and barley A hunter could also trade some of their kills for grain as the farmers would also trade for meat. That is the beginning of commerce. It might also explain why Otzi was able to have a copper axe, instead of a flint axe. It might mean that he first brought this axe into the area from where it was first smelted. So far, archeologists have not published any findings of such smelting in the Tyrol area from that time. A trading hunter might easily be the type of person through whom new technology would spread. One possible scenario for his death, could be of two trying to convince Otzi to trade his axe, and when that tactic goes wrong, he is first attacked by one with a flint knife, lacerating his right hand and during the struggle, another fires an arrow killing him, however if Otzi was a traveling trader, a farming village would expect him to return. If he came back without his axe, he might report the theft. If he was found dead, the fletching on the arrow would reveal who killed him. So this robbery gone wrong meant they had to leave the one thing they wanted, the axe.

[@pegs1659]

How about the scenario where he wasn't murdered, but another person thought he was an animal and shot him? When they realized their mistake they got scared and left him there.

[@walterulasinksi7031]

@@pegs1659 There are several things that make that unlikely. While nit in this NOVA episode, this artist was permitted at the end of the 9 hour period when they defrosted the mummy and multiple teams of doctors took samples. They also saw that he had a laceration across the palm of his right hand. There was also evidence that he had suffered a blunt force trauma to his head. All of these factors, lead more to an assault than an accident.

[@richardstephens5570]

@@pegs1659 Otzi had a defensive knife wound on his right hand that was a few days old. He had been in a fight with somebody prior to his murder.

[@I_Am_Become_Light]

It makes sense why his arm is in that position, considering where the arrow struck him under his left shoulder.

[@mariakelly90210]

I was wondering about that myself.

[@I_Am_Become_Light]

@@mariakelly90210 Yeah, it looks to me like he may have been trying to pull the arrow out. Like his left arm was stretched in that position to get the best angle to grab at it with his right hand.

[@suyapajimenez516]

Love the documentary. Thanks

[@anthonychristy4074]

He was forced into the mountains as a Neolithic farmer by the arrival of Steppe Pastoralists. My paternal lineage is quite close to his as G2A2A with close subclades. G2A Europeans were farmers who may have learned to adapt as they escaped to the mountains.

[@jeff-pm6mj]

They never said if they found living relatives. How cool would that be? Otzi lived one hell of a rough life, considering all of medical tattoos.

[@snowballeffect7812]

tl;dr: it's not that simple because of human migration, genetics and mathematics, not to mention you'd need everyone's genetic material. long explaination: Technically, every human is a living relative. The way generations work, you double the number of "parents" you have every generation you go up. You have your parents, then *usually* four grand parents, and so on. At a certain point, that doubling leads to a number that's greater than the total number of living people at that period of time. Therefore, logically, every person necessarily has to share a distant relative. In fact, all life shares a single distant relative known as the LUCA (last universal common ancestor). All this to say that the Sardinians simply have the most genetic markers that are regionally isolated in common to Otzi, i.e. the people as a group have the least deviation from his own genetic pattern. That doesn't mean the closest living relative is in Sardinia; they could be anywhere in the world, but it'd be like finding a literal needle in a hay stack. You'd need everyone's genetic markers and then statistically analyze them with his to see which group of people matches closest with his. It's likely that a lot of them might be from Sardinia, but there's no guarantee.

[@elizabethdraper4325]

Absolutely stunning this better than any adventure I have seen ..congratulations

[@kylegawron5358]

wonder if they found more discoveries with this mummy since this was aired in 2016.

[@MissesWitch]

that reaction at the end was like "did you steal this?"

[@paustinheaton]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@alinapepe9748]

Went to see Otzi in Bolzano, incredible is all I can say.

[@Rick_Hoppe]

Excellent documentary. The only thing that leaves me wanting is, WHY did he die? If he came from a culture of farmers, why was he a hunter? I suppose an agrarian community could want some meat every once and awhile. Or, could he have been an outcast from his group? After all, he died alone, on a mountain top. Why would someone want to murder him? He could have been seen as competition for game from another group. Or, perhaps he was a bad guy whose past caught up with him. Fascinating grounds for speculation.

[@johncharles2524]

Absolutely Excellent. 5 stars ⭐️. As proven from scientific study, we are all related.

[@hartless76]

I love the sound of that voice so much!❤ Such a great lead singer. He is right up there with Johnny Maestro ❤

[@floaters101]

If it’s so important for his environment to be sterile why is that dr never wearing his mask properly.

[@thatzwhat]

Fascinating production. I'm continually amazed at how much extrapolation anthropologists can make about human life and civilization 5,000 years ago from a single data point.

[@michaelsowden5892]

How many physicians are assigned as his full time doctors in total? He will be giving us valuable anthropology and other sciences for a long time as science progresses.

[@stealthimaster8583]

I just realized something, Otzi is the first person to dab in history.

[@sharkusvelarde]

As others have commented, this episode really misses the mark when an eminent paleo artist is asked to reconstruct the mummy we've already seen and not a life reconstruction?!!

[@Jenniferatcreativeartspark]

That’s kinda what I’ve been thinking. This is fascinating, but I also want to see what they thought he actually looked like!

[@JosephBoot-ln7mw]

Very well done documentary. I enjoyed watching it thoroughly. Thank you very much to all the involved scientists and scholars involved. This is how we teach our children about the history of man.

[@pantherstealth1645]

That 3d print tech has been used for at LEAST 40 years now. It’s only new to those who haven’t seen it yet.

[@KenZchameleon]

This was made in 2016. I'm not sure how expensive & widely-used 3D printers were, but iirc very and not :D

[@tierraguerrero2475]

Wonderful piece of work for the whole humankind. Incredible discovery! Genetics is so fascinating!

[@raeperonneau4941]

Many farmers hunt for meat. Farming and hunting are in no way mutually exclusive. Most of life isn’t either or… it’s both.

[@tpickett1381]

I agree

[@MikePuorro]

The reconstruction of the damaged hip on the resin replica is astounding!