The Iceman constitutes the first prehistoric human ever found with his everyday clothing and equipment, and presumably going about his normal business; other similarly intact bodies from prehistory have been either carefully buried or sacrificed. He brings us literally face to face with the remote past (Paul Bahn, 1996). When Otzi died up on the mountain 5,300 years ago, his final resting place was a trench that ironically saved him. With his body face down over a bolder, large rocks lined the small nook he was in. Eventually, massive amounts of snow fell over the body, the snow compacted and froze forming a glacier. Over thousands of years the glacier built up layers and inched its way forward. Because of the trench Otzi was in, the ice creaked along above him, completely shielding him from any outside influences for many years. …show more content…
The only real knowledge of clothing of from this period was found with otzi. He wore thick shoes with bearskin soles, deerskin insteps and chamois uppers, laced up and stuffed with shredded tree bark for extra insulation. On his body, he wore leggings, a loincloth and a poncho all made of goat skin and a cap of bear fur was strapped to his head. (Justin pollard, 2007) the clothes themselves provides an example of ancient manufacturing technologies, but also a proving they had access to domesticated animals, which is an indication for a more progressive – pastoral agricultural – society. Said lead researcher kaus hollemeyer of Saarland university in Germany. And if his clothes were "exclusively made from wild game, this would be a sign for [a more primitive] gatherer-hunter society with no access to domesticated species like sheep, goat, or cattle," Hollemeyer said by email.
In the essay, “Global Warming is Eroding Glacial Ice,” Andrew C. Revkin argues that global warming is the primary cause for many of the world’s natural disasters; including flash floods, climate change, and the melting of the polar ice caps. He includes multiple accounts of expert testimony as well as a multitude amount of facts and statistics to support his theory that global warming is a threat to the world. However, in the essay “Cold Comfort for ‘Global Warming’,” Phillip Stott makes the complete opposite argument. He argues that global warming is nothing to be worried about and the melting of the polar icecaps is caused by the interglacial period we are currently in. After reading both of these essays and doing extensive research on both viewpoints, I completely agree with Revkin that global warming is an enormous threat to our world today. My research not only helped me to take a stand but it also showed me the invalidity in Stott’s essay.
The fiction story “The Icebound Land” by John Flanagan, it follows two characters, Halt and Will. Will, an ranger aprentice, tries to escape from his captivity of the Skandians with Evanlyn, the princess of Arulean. Halt acomponies Horace to find and save Will from getting traded away. The theme of this story is to save someone important to you at all cost.
During the first stage of investigations, Austrian archaeologist Konrad Spindler researched the layout, which had proved that the iceman’s body position and placement of weapons were preserved in the same position from when the Iceman had died, it had also been proved that the body was initially covered in a thin layer of snow which had helped complete the freeze drying process before it turned into ice. The body had been so well preserved because of the depth that the Iceman was actually lying in the ground, which was near the watershed (watershed meaning a line of high land where streams on one side flow into one river or sea and streams on the other side flow into another.) This meant that a glacier would be able to develop above him throughout the next millennia without moving his position down hill. In this position he was able to remain buried, frozen, covered and protected by the cold over a period of 5,300 years as the worlds oldest, best preserved natural mummy. 2a)
Despite all of these efforts the North is unable to escape the past. The gravestones may be covered with snow, but they are still there. Eventually the snow will melt and everyone will be able to see them. Even the ice palace, the attempt at a building with no past, falls victim to it. The last time an ice palace was built was in 1885, but it is still "peopled by those shades of the eighties"(80).
The Iceman died by fighting for his life in a battle. Some proof that he died in battle was that he had many weapons, and most of them had blood from other people. In “Was Ancient ‘Iceman’ Killed in Battle?” the text says, “Thomas Loy, an archaeologist at the University of Queensland, led the team that studied DNA samples gathered from the Iceman's weapons, tools, and clothing. Loy and his colleagues found that the samples contained blood from four individuals. Blood on an arrow found with the Iceman came from two individuals. Blood on a knife blade carried by the Iceman belonged to a third individual. Loy also discovered blood from a fourth individual on the left side of the Iceman's goatskin coat. Loy says this suggests
The attacker slashed its knife, and the desperate hiker tried his best to defend himself. As the last punch was thrown the hiker toppled over and his head hit hard on a rock that laid beneath him. He was knocked unconscious as his attacker struck an arrow through his back. There are many theories as to of how Otzi died, and for years scientists have been researching to find the answer. Our new twenty first century technologies such as CAT scans and x-rays have led us to new discoveries. Otzi the iceman was killed in hand to hand combat. According to the article, Otzi is believed to be involved in some sort of hand to hand combat because of defensive wounds on his hands and wrists. Multiple tests also found that there was blood from 4 different
The discovery of his possessions weren’t the only treasures found with him. His very body was a window to the past. Analyzing Iceman’s blood, bone,
Historians maybe interested in Otzi the iceman because of his types and age of his tools and weapons. First we will start out talking about how historians maybe interested in Otzi’s tools. Otzi copper axe is one of the most talked about tool. The axe was made from a trunk of a yew tree that had a right angled branch on it. The copper blade was fitted at the end of the right angel and was secured with leather bindings and was coated with birch tar. The main reason historian may think this axe is interesting because the axe was made from the trunk of a yew tree instead of an ash tree which most copper axe where made up at this time. The next tool is Otzi’s backpack. All thou only pieces were found of Otzi’s backpack some pieces that were found
Otzi the Iceman is a mummy. Not just any mummy though, this mummy was alive 5,300 years ago. Scientists have looked at all the evidence and they now think he was murdered. How and by whom he was murdered is the question nobody knows. Many people have many different theories that could or could not be true. Some questions scientist have found the answer to are: where and when he was found, what equipment he had with him and what clothes he had on.
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
The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan is a novel that discussed different climate periods that occurred. The setting of the novel occurred in Europe from 1300 to 1850. Throughout that time period the climate in Europe was changing quite drastically. The layout of this book was done chronologically and thematically. Fagan broke down the book into four different parts: Warmth and its Aftermath, Cooling Begins, The End of the “Full World”, and The Modern Warm Period. He also went further into breaking down each section from discussing the medieval warm period, to the climate seesaw, then to the specter of hunger, finally to a warmer greenhouse as well as other things in between. The way he wrote the book was not based on his personal experience. It
The Siberian Ice Maiden had been found by a team of Russian Archaeologists in the Altai mountains which is located in Mongolia in the year of 1993, This Siberian Ice Maiden also does have another name which is the princess of Ukok. In 1993 a woman called Natalia Polosmak and her team of Archaeologists had taken a group of Archaeologists to the Altai mountains to help out with another investigation and that was to see if there was any sign of anyone who may have lived on these mountains many years ago. So the Discovery of the Siberian Ice Maiden was only an accident. When the team of Russian Archaeologists had been digging they had found some artefacts which seemed to be made thousands of years ago, and because of these findings Natalia had
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It is often difficult to determine exactly what aspect of a movie pushes it the extra steps that take it from a well-received film to becoming a timeless classic. People base their idea of a film’s success on a wide variety of factors, from box office success and critical reception to how many awards it won, if any. One company that is no stranger to success on any level is Disney, and the people at Disney are especially well-versed in putting out animated features that do well not only in the box offices and eyes of critics, but in the hearts and minds of kids and parents alike who return time after time to experience the magic that comes alongside a Disney production. Therefore, it came as no surprise that Disney’s newest full-length animated film quickly rose to the highest position on the box office charts and remained there for quite some time, becoming the highest grossing animated film ever released in theatres. This movie, Frozen, quickly became a favorite among viewers, many returning time and time again to see the film before it was released from theatres, and is now hailed as the next great Disney classic, putting the movie alongside greats like The Little Mermaid and Cinderella. While Frozen does of course take a modern spin on the style of these well-known classics, it still has all of the elements that hoist such Disney greats to their position among the rest while still packing some new surprises that I believe make the movie Frozen one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Disney animated feature to date. Disney’s Frozen takes the classic framework, structure, and imagery of the original classics, adds some modern and even progressive twists, and ties it all together with a phenomenal and successful soundtrack to m...
The story began on a sunny September day, when two hikers were traversing a mountain pass at the 3210-meter (10,530 foot) level and saw a brown, leathery shape protruding from the ice amidst running melt-water. Examining closely, they found a human body which they thought might be the victim of a past mountaineering accident.