Ozti The Iceman Analysis

Ozti the iceman is one of the most unique and astonishing finds of human remains there has been. Frozen in ice, his story will cease to amaze you.
On the 19th September, 1991, Two German holiday makers Erika and Helmut Simon would not have expected to have found a body portruding out of the ice while walking on the east ridge of the Fineilspitze in the Ötztal Alps on the Austrian–Italian border.
This wasn’t the biggest shock, it was after removing the body from the ice with jackhammers and ice-picks. Then Archaeologist Konrad Spindler dating the body to be about 4000 years old based on the axe found with the body.
Then after using carbon dating, Ozti was found to be 5300 years old. Making him the oldest wet mummy known by humans to be frozen in a thick layer of ice.

As he was very well equipped. The copper axe though was a very significant find with the body as men at the time who carried Copper axes were of high class rank such as a warrior or tribal leader, does this mean Ozti was high ranking?
This we can’t know but what Ozti has given us is a snapshot of what life was like at the time. The artefacts have taught us how Ozti and his people lived during the copper age of 3000 BC in the late Neolithic. Being a very civilized and intellectual with them understanding and knowing how to make tools and clothes to adept in the harsh conditions of the alpine.
As most likely due to the finds found with Ozti, such as the axe, blade, daggers and arrowheads. Similarities to these have also been found in graves that bear close similarities of people of the first independent Alpine cultural group, Tamins-Carasso-Isera 5.
Giving us a society that Ozti most likely belonged to mainly consisting of farmers and hunters. As analyses of Ötzi’s stomach contents have shown that he ate venison and chamois meat, grains and other plants before he died. Giving us a type of diet his people ate at the