Iceman Reborn: A 5,000-Year-Old Murder Mystery | Full Documentary | NOVA

Iceman Reborn: A 5,000-Year-Old Murder Mystery | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

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Watch as Otzi, a 5000-year-old mummy, is brought to life and preserved with 3D modeling.
(Aired February 17, 2016)
Official Website: to.pbs.org/3vIJgGb | #novapbs
He was stalked, attacked and left to die alone. Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is Europe’s oldest known natural mummy. Miraculously preserved in glacial ice, his remarkably intact remains continue to provide scientists, historians, and archeologists with groundbreaking discoveries about a crucial time in human history. But in order to protect him from contamination, this extraordinary body has been locked away, out of reach, in a frozen crypt-until now. NOVA joins renowned artist and paleo-sculptor Gary Staab as he has been granted rare access into the Iceman’s frozen lair. Gary has been charged with creating an exact replica of the mummy, which scientists and the public alike can then study up close and in person. As we see the Iceman reborn from 3D printing, resin, clay and paint, new revelations about Otzi’s life and legacy come to light, including surprising secrets hidden in his genetic code.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
07:16 3D Printing Model of Otzi the Iceman
13:55 Who Was Otzi the Iceman?
17:24 Sculpting Otzi the Iceman’s Skin
24:13 How Are Mummies Preserved?
28:14 Otzi the Iceman’s Tattoos
33:58 The Significance of Mushrooms Carried by Otzi
36:22 Final Details of Otzi the Iceman Sculpture
38:04 Analyzing Otzi’s Genetic Code
48:34 Conclusion
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@mikewazowski350 5 ай бұрын

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

@LexieEclectic 4 ай бұрын

YEAAAAAAH😳

@JeffBrown-vn1xe 2 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@JeffBrown-vn1xe mythical youtube comment 🤑🙏

@bobscat-wj4ub Ай бұрын

how else would he get a tattoo lol thats still how it done today but 1000s of more stabs with a tattoo gun

@hansj2468 4 күн бұрын

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

@bethylawson480 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

Seriously they just flipped and tossed it around

@TomHill-xh7ec 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

That's why I thought

@kuriboh635 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

First dibs will do that to a person

@MadBull.34 5 ай бұрын

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

@michaelisshort-ll7ug 26 күн бұрын

Frfr

@ashish282 4 күн бұрын

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 Сағат бұрын

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

@anamartins3223 6 ай бұрын

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

@buggalujuju 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

@nagone11 uhmmmm duh?

@nagone11 6 ай бұрын

@@buggalujuju Uhmm duh!!

@Road_Rash 5 ай бұрын

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

@lorrieshigley3625 6 ай бұрын

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

@paulabuck5976 6 ай бұрын

Me too!

@SteveGrin 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@sinshamsh11 6 ай бұрын

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

@grouchyolddan 6 ай бұрын

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

@shanghunter7697 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

Wow. That’s good information. Thanks!

@user-er1kb7xx7c 6 ай бұрын

This is fascinating.

@TheBatugan77 6 ай бұрын

CSI should have processed the scene. 😮😯😲

@vampirina-vp7op 5 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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.

@lilym1137 6 ай бұрын

touching it with bare hands is CRAZY

@CrackberryMe 5 ай бұрын

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

@torrilarsen6503 6 ай бұрын

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

@avalondreaming1433 5 ай бұрын

Isn't this documentary 5 or 6 years old?

@dlemmo9006 5 ай бұрын

@@avalondreaming1433 its from 2016

@higgsmerino3925 5 ай бұрын

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

@av1421 5 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNp1p5CEnN2vnZs.html&ab_channel=DanDavisHistory

@mattiemathis9549 5 ай бұрын

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.

@keithwald5349 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@MrFriiy 5 ай бұрын

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.

@TaterChip91 6 ай бұрын

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

@BangBang-hk4rg 6 ай бұрын

I saw that too! 🤣

@AuroraBjorn 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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

@Aeoxmusic 5 ай бұрын

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

@HollyMoore-wo2mh 5 ай бұрын

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

@martaholmes4287 6 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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

@martaholmes4287 5 ай бұрын

@@susanb2015 Did you watch the program?

@SummerSun-sg3wf 5 ай бұрын

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

@childcrone 5 ай бұрын

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

@ti-lo5hy 5 ай бұрын

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

@mackpines 6 ай бұрын

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

@pbbunnyz1784 6 ай бұрын

Funding for PBS programming is provided by viewers like you. Thank you.

@variyasalo2581 6 ай бұрын

I love Nova!

@brooksequine7621 6 ай бұрын

I concur !

@hsmd4533 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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.

@yanina.korolko 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

Excellent info - thanks!

@shanghunter7697 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@OanhSchlesinger 6 ай бұрын

@@shanghunter7697😂😂

@shanghunter7697 6 ай бұрын

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

@DesiderataSanctuary 6 ай бұрын

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

@yvonneschermerhorn866 5 ай бұрын

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

@craignelson3965 3 ай бұрын

Lol

@joenewman6494 3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@pilotboy217 24 күн бұрын

😂😂PIPE IT UP

@HellOnWheel 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@emarieburson8846 6 ай бұрын

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

@BangBang-hk4rg 6 ай бұрын

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

@higgsmerino3925 5 ай бұрын

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

@BABUROBINSON 29 күн бұрын

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

@grump9001 6 ай бұрын

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

@user-cb8do5vg9e 5 ай бұрын

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.

@user-qu4vs1em5m 6 ай бұрын

I forgot how great these NOVA programs are.

@track1949 Күн бұрын

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.

@robbyjobarton2637 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@JadedLady 6 ай бұрын

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.

@stevenscummy1458 3 ай бұрын

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

@kyleighwhite1409 6 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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

@jackiemack8653 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@stevenscummy1458 3 ай бұрын

And toothaches

@nancyeaton731 7 күн бұрын

@@stevenscummy1458 Even a simple tooth infection could be fatal. People had so many pitfalls ahead of them as they aged back then.

@stevenscummy1458 7 күн бұрын

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

@jyeung222 6 ай бұрын

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_ 5 ай бұрын

Same!!

@joyciejd9673 6 ай бұрын

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

@kennethflorek8532 6 ай бұрын

@EEsmalls 5 ай бұрын

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

@kennethflorek8532 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Linda-sq2ti 6 ай бұрын

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

@catherinekenyon7555 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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 😢

@MetalPcAngel 5 ай бұрын

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

@ephgm 6 ай бұрын

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

@purplepeople9298 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@debbralehrman5957 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

@beesod6412 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for feeding my brain for the last 35 years!

@catchaser52 6 ай бұрын

Agree. Great videos.

@OanhSchlesinger 6 ай бұрын

Indeed!

@mkhanman12345 6 ай бұрын

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

@alisterzarkar7163 5 ай бұрын

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.

@dawnadriana1764 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@OanhSchlesinger 6 ай бұрын

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

@dsoutherland1747 5 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

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!

@usgalsen 5 ай бұрын

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

@markvonwisco7369 3 ай бұрын

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.

@chrisxschmidt 6 ай бұрын

Otzi never disappoints!

@saltybuttpepper1766 Ай бұрын

bro Who R U 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@susanlee298 6 ай бұрын

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

@Errcyco 6 ай бұрын

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

@joesands8860 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@jeremias-serus 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

I would like to know who his modern relatives were

@childcrone 5 ай бұрын

@@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 4 ай бұрын

@@jeremias-serus😊qq

@robertpaulson2052 6 ай бұрын

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.

@AuroraBjorn 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@johnsonjohnson4725 6 ай бұрын

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

@OanhSchlesinger 6 ай бұрын

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

@LeighsLittleLife 2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@chikkinnuggits 6 ай бұрын

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

@MikeDancingBull 6 ай бұрын

Amazing documentary, thank you Nova for another great piece. I believe Otzi was a type of warrior, guardian or peacekeeper for his farming tribe. Which I'm sure raiding, looting and pillaging was happening back then. His weapons also suggest he was prepared for direct conflicts w other humans. Whoever shot him w the arrow shot him from the back and not directly forward, suggests his killer was afraid of him. Or he was running away from the threat. Being in his 40s he would be considered very old back then, living that long suggests he was a successful man. Living through many hardships and was probably considered a wise man of his time. I believe some not all of his tattoos are marks of achievements in battle or hunting. Not just a belief the tattoos will cure illness. Other tribesmen would see those tattoos and would recognize Otzi means business. IMO Thanks to all the talented people involved in this.

@donnievance1942 6 ай бұрын

The low life expectancy of ancient peoples was due mainly to high infant and childhood mortality. Once people survived to adulthood, they often lived to ages that we would consider old today. So no, at around 45 years of age, he would not have been considered a very old man by his people. Notice that he was carrying hunting weapons and was found high in the alpine zone. He was still a vigorous man when he was killed, despite his arthritic problems. He was not decrepit, or he could never have gotten to the location where he was found.

@antonio97b 6 ай бұрын

He could have easily been shot in the back because he was running away. You're reading way too much into it.

@sergeytaranovich2368 6 ай бұрын

Or maybe he was a part of gang that looted a local farm and got shot in a process

@yvonneschermerhorn866 5 ай бұрын

Great suppositions you gleaned from the video! ❤

@sergeytaranovich2368 5 ай бұрын

@@yvonneschermerhorn866 it's go 50/50 both ways, at a end of the day we will never know what happened to poor bloke on that unfortunate for him day .

@smadaf 5 ай бұрын

It's great that PBS is making so much _Nova_ stuff available on KZfaq 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 5 ай бұрын

EXACTLY!!!!! "Ö"

@dominicaddesa154 Ай бұрын

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

@jeepdude7359 6 ай бұрын

“90% of all life on earth is now extinct” It makes you realize how fragile our existence is. We have had it too good for too long. One day the chapter of our existence will turn the page. I fear our star.

@kross1261 6 ай бұрын

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

@GrungeHistory 5 ай бұрын

The first human in history to ever do the dab

@yanceydavenport8657 2 ай бұрын

HAHAHA 🤣!! 👍😅

@Allegedly..Angela 6 ай бұрын

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

@OanhSchlesinger 6 ай бұрын

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

@SILVERSTREAK925 6 ай бұрын

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

@OanhSchlesinger 6 ай бұрын

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

@astronomicalreason9807 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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 ! 🎉❤😊😊

@rameyzamora1018 6 ай бұрын

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

@SolaceEasy 6 ай бұрын

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

@variyasalo2581 6 ай бұрын

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

@brooksequine7621 6 ай бұрын

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

@sagesleuth 6 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏

@MrJsv650 6 ай бұрын

Like good 🐑 @@variyasalo2581

@laurahemenway4608 6 ай бұрын

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

@TimeTheory2099 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Nova on PBS 👍

@monav4062 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@higgsmerino3925 5 ай бұрын

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

5 ай бұрын

His tattoos represent the 5th Element

@neonmeate8180 3 ай бұрын

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

@monav4062 3 ай бұрын

@@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. .

@tedbomba6631 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@darlenelarochelle4011 6 ай бұрын

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".

@fanny3942 5 ай бұрын

Very fascinating documentary. I loved it 😍 thank you .

@wdking8833 5 ай бұрын

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.

@johnrandolph6121 5 ай бұрын

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

@judigrumm7190 5 ай бұрын

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

@Bluecheese1400 5 ай бұрын

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.

@teresasardinas5642 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

How far back did that go?

@jamesleonard2870 6 ай бұрын

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

@randomvintagefilm273 6 ай бұрын

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

@user-useff 6 ай бұрын

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

@nickhowatson4745 2 күн бұрын

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

@metsrus 5 ай бұрын

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

@lynnseredych3306 6 ай бұрын

Fascinating! I've always enjoyed watching Nova.

@ReneeHorth 6 ай бұрын

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

@momv2pa 4 ай бұрын

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!

@OanhSchlesinger 6 ай бұрын

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

@yanina.korolko 6 ай бұрын

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

@kylegawron5358 6 ай бұрын

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

@kamiw5864 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

Right. No social media to occupy them. 😮

@kamiw5864 6 ай бұрын

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

@TheVeek192 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

@@TheVeek192 , nailed it.

@projectionv.accountability1010 5 ай бұрын

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.

@justicewillprevail1106 6 ай бұрын

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

@I_Am_Become_Light 6 ай бұрын

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

@mariakelly90210 5 ай бұрын

I was wondering about that myself.

@I_Am_Become_Light 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@lambeausouth1 5 ай бұрын

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

@sharkusvelarde 6 ай бұрын

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?!!

@beadywoman 5 ай бұрын

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

@suyapajimenez516 6 ай бұрын

Love the documentary. Thanks

@elizabethdraper4325 6 ай бұрын

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

@hartless76 4 ай бұрын

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

@SorbetthekindUbuyina2ndhandsto 6 ай бұрын

Ok man, he is 5,000 years old....you don't have to make him feel older....

@rainydaylady6596 6 ай бұрын

😂🤣😂🖖

@claudettes9697 6 ай бұрын

lol hahaha

@mariakelly90210 5 ай бұрын

Otzi doesn't look a day over 3726 to me.

@northpointaxe6167 5 ай бұрын

Most deaths by weapons, outside of war and crime are self inflicted. He wasn't robbed, his axe and such were valuable and not taken. The location of the arrow head suggests he fell on one of his own arrows while hunting. The way his arrows were slung and the wound are very clearly self inflicted and accidental. He could have fallen in the snow and stabbed himself with his own arrow. But most likely was he sat down and while he sat the arrow entered his body, the arrow head even shows that sitting was the most likely cause of accident.

@SuperSafetychick Ай бұрын

So he was clumsy, like he slipped and fell on the ice? Or do you propose some other root cause/mechanism of injury. Please develop your hypothesis.

@anthonychristy4074 5 ай бұрын

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.

@paustinheaton 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating!

@queerlemons1919 5 ай бұрын

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

@peterolbrisch8970 6 ай бұрын

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

@LeftToWrite006 6 ай бұрын

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

@jeff-pm6mj 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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.

@rajun1231 5 ай бұрын

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

@choochoo9436 6 ай бұрын

Why not take a CT scan of his head then 3D model his skull from the scan then reconstruct what his face looked like when he was alive?

@michaelsowden5892 6 ай бұрын

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.

@mawg7598 6 ай бұрын

This was totally amazing. Thank You!

@thatzwhat 5 ай бұрын

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.

@walterulasinksi7031 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

@@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 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Rick_Hoppe 6 ай бұрын

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.

@pietromoopy2010 5 ай бұрын

Otzis could have also been a thief/murderer, hunted down and brought to justice. Or just some poor guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

@snowballeffect7812 5 ай бұрын

They say the arrowhead likely cut an artery in that area, but they never really prove it. I guess most people wouldn't be walking around with an arrow head in their arm, but if he was alone, maybe he wouldn't be able to remove it on his own. It doesn't seem like they found the arrow shaft and they don't really show us an entry wound, either.

@JosephBoot-ln7mw 5 ай бұрын

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.

@colinslaboden 6 ай бұрын

Iceman!

@pantherstealth1645 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@alinapepe9748 5 ай бұрын

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

@jackrusselpupper1979 6 ай бұрын

Excellent yet again! NOVA does these documentaries with top most excellence! I recommend next to create his face, as they do in the crime shows, where they reconstruct the victims faces! It will not be accurate of course, but it will make the ocean more real to the viewers. I would love to see what the Iceman may have looked like. He is not much taller than I, at 5'0 tall, and he at 5'2" tall. it is the most interesting subject matter, absolutely! Would love the follow up. The fabrics of his clothing, his shoes, his weapons undamaged, and so on in full regalia would be most facinating! Even if it we're only in the computer finish by SO creations. Thank you for the documentaries through the years. I have also my children have learned quite a lot. Thank you.

@comfortablynumb9342 6 ай бұрын

Wouldn't carrying a heavy load put some kind of wear marks on the shoulders or elsewhere on the skeleton? What I find interesting is that the body has an arrow head wound that isn't likely to be self inflicted in an accident. So somebody hurt him, yet they didn't take the copper axe. Maybe I'm wrong but that seems like a very valuable, useful and fairly rare item that an enemy would want. Copper axes were probably extremely valuable at the time he lived because of the availability of copper and the skills to turn it into an axe being specialized.

@williscopeland7114 6 ай бұрын

You make an interesting point. How about if he was hit with the arrow while running away and fell over a cliff or into a crevasse. Then his enemies couldn’t reach him and retrieve the axe.

@comfortablynumb9342 6 ай бұрын

@@williscopeland7114 yeah we're missing a lot of context

@alaskaaksala123 6 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing, “why didn’t they take the axe!”…. It’s possible he fled a ways and the shooter was either afraid of him or just didn’t want to pursue him.. it’s possible he was with a friend, they had an argument, things got heated.. .. interesting to think about..

@djquinn11 6 ай бұрын

Not like you can axe him now.

@peterquinn2997 6 ай бұрын

@@djquinn11that was lame bro. 😂

@24kachina 6 ай бұрын

Awesome. BUT WHAT INTRIGUES me is if he was killed by a bowshot from another human, I can't imagine the arrow slayer NOT taking Otzi's gear, and especially the copper headed axe, which must have been extremely valuable. Where is Sherlock Holmes?

@Johnsrage 6 ай бұрын

It's been my belief that Otzi was chased down by someone who simply wanted him dead. I'm guessing it was a jealous husband that discovered he had been with his wife or partner. He wasn't just a man on the move, he was a man on the run.

@variyasalo2581 6 ай бұрын

Maybe it was against their religious beliefs. He was a ghost and would replace the soul of the one who robbed him. Only conjecture!