Mitchell Metz Ice Man 5,000 years ago Otzi was in a fight.  He lost. Forensic evidence suggests a 48-hour "combat situation" that did not end pretty. Evidence: 1) arrowhead in scapula, 2) defensive gashes on wrists, 3) death.  But not before he killed two attackers, carried an injured comrade on his back. Otzi wore skins and ate ibex. He used a bow & arrows, a copper axe. Anthropologists speculate he was a specialist who hunted high above the tree line where tribal boundaries blur.  There he encountered "a hostile language group." which precipitated "a boundary situation." At some point Otzi shot an enemy, retrieved his arrow. Molecular archeologists cannot reproduce the sound of serrated flint torn from a dying man.

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