Routine of mountain hikes, evidence of muscle development. Black
markings over 50 - tattoos of unknown significance. Arrow head will
solve mysteries about Otzi's death. Copper axe - importance
(someone significance) jealous tribe man. Stone carvings in nearby
village depict a copper axe of very significant symbolic power.
Pollen conveys the information about distance travelled, the
different horn bee trees and conifer pollen layers in his
intestines and determines that he was going up to the mountain from
his village. Then a horn bee layer and then a conifer layer. The
documentary deduces that he went up the mountain and came back
down. On his right hand there was a deep cut - indicating hand to
hand combat. Blood in the brain - fracture to the skull by being
hit on the head by a weapon by somebody else or he hit his head on
a rock directly after he died. Fractured ribs (struck down and
broke ribs on the ground or rock). Otzi was perhaps shot with the
arrow first from long range, the killers not looting his body.
Instead his items are laid down in a circle. Left the axe and took
the arrow shaft - in order not to be identified as the killer. Otzi
was person of great importance, perhaps chieftain or leader of the
tribe. His kin either sacrificed him on the mountain (laying out
the items in circle), or murdered (arrow in the back). Dr. Markus
Egg (Romano-Germanic Central Museum) offered the theory that tzi
was a shepherd who was killed by another shepherd who wanted a
larger flock of animals. Dr. Eduard Egarter Vigl proposed other
possibilities: a returning herdsman, he arrived home as his village
was being attacked, or he arrived home to find that "another man
had taken his wife during his absence" (Smithsonian). A study
published in early 2009 suggested that the Iceman was injured in a
brawl (the deep gash in his hand) a few days before he was killed
by the arrow. They theorise that he fled from his village in a
hurry--as shown by his unfinished arrows The evidence for injuries
received a few days apart. The remaining issues are the motive and
the circumstances, and both remain unclear
