The 5,300-Year-Old Man Found Frozen In The Alps — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Hidden Origins
We know how he died.
We know what he carried and how he dressed.
We know that he had arthritic knees and a chronic infection and dental pain.
We know that he was going bald.
We know, now, that his skin was darker than artists had imagined, and his eyes probably brown.
These facts are simultaneously trivial and profound.
They are trivial in the sense that knowing Ötzi was going bald does not fundamentally change our understanding of Copper Age Europe.
They are profound in the sense that they make the distance between the present and the past collapse for a moment — they make a person who died five thousand years ago recognizable as a person.
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