The 5,300-Year-Old Man Found Frozen In The Alps — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Hidden Origins
His height, estimated from his skeletal remains, was approximately 1.60 meters — roughly five feet three inches, which was typical for European men of his time and place.
He weighed an estimated 50 kilograms or slightly under — lean, muscular, and by the physical evidence a man accustomed to sustained physical exertion in demanding terrain.
His teeth told a story of their own.
They showed significant wear consistent with a diet heavy in coarse grains, and multiple dental abscesses that would have caused him chronic pain.
He had cavities — a consequence of a diet with significant grain content, since the farming revolution had introduced starches and fermentable carbohydrates to human diets in ways that the hunter-gatherer diet preceding it had not.
He was, in his dental health, a representative of the agricultural revolution’s mixed legacy.