The 5,300-Year-Old Man Found Frozen In The Alps — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Hidden Origins
It stayed for five thousand years.
And in 1991 it let him go.
Science has spent thirty-three years answering the question of who he was, one method at a time.
The answer is still incomplete.
But it is more complete than it was, and richer than anyone who found him in 1991 could have imagined.
He was a Copper Age man of primarily Anatolian ancestry, living in genetically isolated communities of the Alpine valleys.
He was darker-skinned than artistic reconstructions had shown.
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