Turns out he killed a chicken in skyrim and had to flee to the alps

He probably was an average on the badass-meter at his time.

so your saying the ötzi iceman killed two people with one arrow and then died dabbing wow he was really cool

Does that mean we should start burying people in snow mountains so that our future overlords will have a preserved specimen if our technology fails to continue through the millenniums? -A Random Thought

The reason few people died of heart disease and cancer in the past is because they died from other things first.

wow ottzi was a badass. Probably why he was still alive at 40 something.

I wonder why those who killed him wouldn't take his valuable copper axe

He also taught us that five thousand years ago, Europeans had more Neanderthal in them than modern humans. Otzi had 5.5%, more than any present day human measured.

my dude died dabbing

I just get the feeling that otzi was some sort of criminal

I would love to see a movie about his life. Be interesting

Otzi belonged to haplogroups G2a-L91 and K1f, both really rare subclades today, found mostly on isolated islands (Corsica, Sicily,Sardinia) and the Middle East. This combination indicates that Otzi's ancestors settled in Europe from Western Asia during the Neolithic.

He created the dab.

I found it interesting that Otzi only has 19 living relatives today, and that his mitochondrial lineage (an extinct subclade of K1) has died out.

What I want to know is this: If he did die a violent death at the hands of another person, why did they not bother to loot him.....his copper axe would have been ridiculously valuable.

he was the ancestor of mesut Ozil

So interesting! Thanks a lot Trace!

damn back then you HAD to watch your back at all times i imagine the stress those people went through

Am I the only one that thinks his story would make a really good movie?

We talk about him being such an "early human" but he died 5,300 years ago.....which was AFTER the invention of writing and the advent of recorded history.

My teacher told me otzi was a blood and the goons who attacked him were crips. Otzi was in the wrong territory and therefore had to get attacked.

IMO sounds like he committed a crime (3 diff ppls blood between his jacket & arrowhead) & escaped into the mountains. He was then tracked by a village posse they ambushed him when he stopped to eat.

I love this channel! Great work Trace and everybody who is working with it :)

Ive had a lifelong interest in Utzi(how they also spelled it) and always get excited when I hear new news about him.

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Nice video, good job Trace. The dude died a violent death. Humans didn't really changed much in the last 53,000 years.

So excited I found this channel! Thank you! According to genetic testing Otzi is one of my ancestors as are some Neanderthals. I’m so proud to be related to this brave man.

Years ago I was picking up a load of Alloy truck wheels at an Italian city , Bolzano, they told me the load wouldn't be ready until next day. I went for a walk and saw a queue outside the museum. I joined the queue, it took quite some time, but...............I saw Otzi, frozen in his special chamber. I'll remember that for as long as I live.

Why were the attackers attacking him? If they were robbers they would have stolen his copper axe, which I hear was a status symbol in his culture.

watched this in class today i wonder if we will go back to this video and look in the comments 😂😂

Please make this show a podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud or somewhere so I can listen it on my daily commute. PLEASE!

Trace I'm learning more about humans from you in one week than I learned in 4 months of anthropology class from my teacher,. Really great and interesting stuff

A wealthy, respected, well tended Human with advanced Lyme disease ? He was probably a leader who got sick and was going to be mercy killed. It would explain his copper ax, a status symbol, why no one looted his corpse, and the excessive medical attention and food he was receiving.

The reason Otiz was in the alps (probably) was because it as a burial. The pollen found in his stomach was from a plant that only bloomed in spring. Otzi was put in the alps much later. That's probably why he was so well persevered. We have evidence from later cultures that store/freeze dead bodies until the burial can happen. That's what probably what happened with him. We know from his skin that he was preserved was through a flux of warm and cold weather. You don't get that in the alps. Because of how old he was, he was probably a person of power in his community. (45 was a really long life span for that time period.) This is confirmed by the fact he has a copper axe. So yeah burial. It would explain the weird placement of artifacts and the arrows he had with in. Most of the arrows were unfinished. And why he had his copper axe.

He was also carrying two types of medicinal mushrooms for treating his lime infection, shoes, a belt for carrying his arrows, a bag with a kit to make fire.. and some other things I don't remember rk

This video was very informative and it helped me with my school project! thank you! :)

Very interesting! But how do they know the blood on the arrow head wasn't from the day or the week before.

Is it possible that Ötzi could have been shot by his attackers BEFORE he went up the mountain? (Like while he was shooting the two guys with one arrow.) And then in the mountain took the medicine and broke off the arrow shaft that they found with him. Then somehow stumbled and hit his head and died.

It is quite common to reuse arrows considering what it took to make them, it was a lot easier to retrieve one than to make another, which means the blood could have come from an issue prior to the one you state. The arrow head in his back, apparently had been there awhile, again, he might have been shot previously, and as most men do, toughed it out. Early men and women were not in the habit of changing clothes very often and would add new rather than change. So, the additional blood could have come from a previous fight or he just switched jackets.

the fact that you didn't include a picture is mindblowing

i bet he beat off all the attackers...then get up and tripped and hit his head agains the rock and he died

I'm learning about this guy in class but it's really disturbing but also really cool

I love Otzi. Also that cute derpy shirt and that cute derpy scientist :D Keep rocking on, Trace!

I was always under the impression that Otzi's bow was unfinished, as in it wasn't done being made, properly tillered and so on. Maybe Wikipedia meant that it wasn't "finished" in the sense that it wasn't finished with a oil, like they do to better preserve the properties of the wood.

They didn't have fancy knives in the stone age? Obviously you have never tried flint napping. Stone knives are gorgeous, painstakingly difficult to make, and amazingly effective.

Ötzi is Chuck Norris meditating, he`s not dead

Otzi probably knew his murderer very well. In all probability they were of the same village. Infact the killer turned otzi's corpse face down to recover his arrow (the position of the arm across the chest is very typical of this manuver. He had been turned face down after the death), but didn't take otzi's arrows, the bow, and the very valuable copper axe (isotopes' analysis revealed that the copper came form an ore in south Tuscany, 400 km away, it was not a common item). Cause both the arrow on the dead body, or the possession of Otzi's items would have been incriminating.

Human science has learned so much about this man, his culture, and his basic humanness from examining his body. Enough to respect him and his people highly. It is a pity we will not have the same breadth of opportunity with Kennewick Man!

I have a question. If frozen masses can preserve such human remains so well... where are all the human remains going a lot further back than this guy? Why don't we have 10,000 yr old Ice men and 20,000, 50K etc??

Otzi has been the coolest guy for a long time. (wink, wink):D

A photo of his preserved body would be icing on the cake

Imagine going back in time to meet him? We couldn't warn him that he was going to be attacked at that location, and we might have trouble communicating with him, but still, it would be cool to meet him.

Ötzi the first MLG quikscopa eva.

Curious that his attackers did not take his belongings after they killed him, especially the copper axe. Maybe there was some taboo or superstition about stealing from the dead?

cool video, thanks for info about Ötzi.

I've just found this channel and subscribed, so interesting! I watch D News occasionally, but the host sounds so much better unscripted, so I'll be watching this much more often.

What if Ötzi was being chased for committing an awful deed within his tribe? Maybe he wasn't the "cool guy", or hero he's being made out to be. If several people were hunting him down, maybe he was on the run from "the law". Or maybe he was wrongly accused, and framed for something he didn't do! Regardless, he's become an amazingly interesting specimen, but I'm not on board to praise him, or put forth any benevolent morals on the guy, merely because he died in a fight and was preserved for 5,300 years. Nor do I think he's cool for having to fight for his survival. Maybe TestTube plus should examine why American culture praises violence. Evenmore, possibly study why the compound word badass is so popular and means a positive thing; as if its something to strive for. I've wondered that after I had used it in conversation, and a friend had simply asked why I thought being a "badass" was such a good thing. I realized that it only perpetuates the notion that being gritty, tough, , and somewhat aggressive, yet holding some judeo-christian moral code is cool. I've held back ever since. Then, maybe go on to do an episode analysing why our culture is so lax on violence in cinema, but shuns sex and the nude human body - yet sexual allusions plague advertising. Either way, thanks Ötzi for initiating this comment!

3:44 or he didn't clean it from the last time he used it that what I hate the most when they chose the coolest and talk about it as a fact

I'm a Biological Anthropology major and nothing gets me more pumped than Otzi. Except maybe The Catacombs of Palermo or The "Lady of Di" mummy. Mummies in general are just so fucking cool.

Very interesting

The first bamf

Damn Americans not knowing how to pronounce Ö, you make him sound like some cute cartoon when saying Ootsie

Has anyone copied Ötzi's and had them tattooed onto their own body? Do we even have a visual representation of what his tattoos looked like? Interesting, all around! Thanks for sharing this - I imagine there's a lot more to learn, as our knowledge grows!

Ötzi was a badass, two guys, one arrow.

Ötzi's last name is Norris..

Oh great...another guy sitting in front of a laptop waving his arms and pontificating.

God, I love you Trace!! You've gotta be one of the most knowledgeable men ever right now....thank you so so much for including us on your quest for worldly knowledges & wisdoms!! The art of learning, experience & the mastery of the fine, liberal & classical arts are commendable things to bring to the world, and I appreciate what you do!! It can't be easy to do what you do in the cynical world we live in & I hope you know how much this means!! Thank you for spreading what you learn! Sci, Soc &ALL

A few images/renderings wouldn't have hurt this video. Thanks for the update.

Otzi the Iceman could have been a Proto-Indo-European. Exciting :)

This guy should relax his voice its kind of annoying.

A few years ago, a director took up this theme of Özi in a cinema action film. However, this is only a reconstruction of many possibilities.

Great vid , thanks

Really? 3300 BCE- Not Very ancient for Humans, I Mean in Mesopotamia they were already building kingdoms and city-states I mean it is ancient for written history , this was the beginning of written records, but ancient in humanit , no, this is Copper Age, i mean thats like saying WWI is ancient history, there is much more ancient So Ötzi is not ancient

He was really short for 5 ft 3 inches.

i love the way that he reads all the info off his laptop.

You have super cool videos and ive watched them all, bud can you maybe put pictures in youre explains, that would make the image from the axplenation some more easy.

We are learning about this in school for world history.

thanks for the infomation for my history project man

My school sent me here, but honestly I'm not complaining, this is actually pretty cool

Ötzi The Iceman is now my hero. A complete badass.

Ötzi the Iceman, was a very jolly soul, with a copper axe and a couple arrows-

Would make a great movie i reckon. The Chronicles of Ötzi!

I saw him in the museum in Bozen/Bolzano.

Thanks for the concise and informational commentary. Thanks too for omitting music which detracts from the narrative. More should take a lesson from your format.

What about doing a video explaining what techniques are used to date these ancient artifacts.

if there was a movie about that guy i would watch it

Wow! This guy was a true badass! "Frickin Legolas" lmao

Impressive story! The whole situation reminds me of the stuff that happens on Dwarf Fortress. :O

Ötzi was a fucking badass for his time. Dude was like the stone age John Wick, holy shit. Also the fact he was carrying all those tools, weapons, and food, and was attacked by a group of men not once but twice during his journey, would indicate he was on the run. Why? I don't know, but whatever it was he did, those people really wanted him dead for it.

Utsi was an awesome strong Dude ... He look's like my Buddy Roman ... Jimmy from Chicago ...

Ötzi is a straight up OG and OH original human

That was awesome.

somewhere in the mittle of the mountains there are probably other "ötzis" waiting to be found.Pretty cool

i love these!

i was totally obsessed with the iceman when i was 7 so I totally get it im screaming right now

Great video- maybe add some visuals so we can see what otzi looked like!

this is the most interesting ancient human that I've ever heard about, hopefully I can travel to Italy to say hi. :)

SO interesting!!

I'm really curious: Do the people in the videos edit the videos, or are there dedicated editors. Second, is this your full time job? Don't blame me for asking, blame my curiosity. :)

Should include some pics at the least, know it's more work per video, but in the length it's worth it. Nonetheless, great video. Interesting stuff