The 5,300-Year-Old Man Found Frozen In The Alps — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Hidden Origins
He had dark skin, dark eyes, and was likely bald or substantially bald.
His bones ached from arthritis.
His mouth hurt from dental abscesses and cavities.
He carried a copper axe that marked his status.
He had recently been in a fight.
He ate a good meal in an alpine hollow.
And someone shot him from behind while he rested.
The genetics confirmed that he was part of a genetically isolated Alpine community carrying unusually high proportions of the Anatolian farmer ancestry that had spread into Europe thousands of years before his birth.