Two items found with the Iceman or to do with his body and explain how they enhance our understanding of the man and times in which he lived?
There were a multitude of items that were found with the Iceman including an unfinished yellow longbow, a bronze axe, arrows, a leather pouch, a woven grass cloak, a leather vest, shoes, a flint knife, an ash handle and an stone arrow that had been embedded into his shoulder. Body contents showed two meals, one of ibex meat, the second of red deer meet, both consumed with supposedly some grain of corn.
An examination of Otzi's tools indicated that the initially perceived 'bronze axe' was in fact made out of copper which exemplifies that Otzi's time was more advanced than expected that he had lived at the end of the Stone Age and beginning of the Copper Age. This is further reinforced by the arsenic (a chemical element) that was discovered in his hair through a proton microphone which indicates that Otzi was exposed to smelting.
An analysis of the arrow embedded within Otzi's shoulder suggests that Neolithic people (people of the 'new stone era') had a general understanding of the ballistic (science of mechanic) associated in making effective and long lasting arrows. This is further reinforced through the feathers on the arrow head itself- possibly a theory of the feathers forming a more smooth, faster journey throughout the air?
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| "A copper axe with a yew handle, an unfinished long bow, a kit filled with spices, a flint knife" (Left to right) |
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