Ötzi the Iceman: The Neolithic Ice Mummy

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Five thousand years ago, a man died more than 10,000 feet high in the Alps of northern Italy. He had been shot in the back with an arrow, the corpse left behind, where he was frozen into a glacier along with all of his belongings. He stayed there until two hikers found him - still half covered in ice - in 1991. What was Ötzi's life like? And what can we learn about his final days and hours? Thanks to incredible scientific studies, we know more about Ötzi than almost anybody who's ever lived.

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0:08.3	The man struggled to breathe, sucking thin air into his lungs in great heaving gulps.
0:22.4	Fears howling gusts of wind drowned out his shuddering gasps, driving the snowflakes
0:27.0	that fell in swirls and sheets around it.
0:29.9	He'd been running up the rocky mountainside through the driving snow of an unseasonable
0:34.2	early summer storm for what seemed like hours.
0:38.2	But now he thought he was safe.
0:40.6	His footsteps slowed and then stopped.
0:43.5	Being careful to avoid rubbing the strap against the bone deep wound in his right hand, he
0:48.3	gingerly swung the wooden frame of his backpack off his shoulder.
0:52.4	He propped the unfinished boast out of a six foot length of you wood against the
0:56.2	ledge of rock for safekeeping.
1:00.6	He retrieved a bit of smoked eyebecks meat from the pouch of the backpack and bit into
1:03.9	it, chewing and swallowing the tough food and then spat out the bones.
1:08.5	A chunk of red deer followed, mostly chewy fat, that a flat, dry cake made from iron
1:13.4	corn wheat.
1:15.4	This little depression would be a good place for arrest, he thought, squatting down into
1:19.0	unfurling his cloak made from woven grass and placing it on the ground.
1:23.1	He put his head down and closed his eyes, shivering against the cold wind and swirling
1:27.1	snow.
1:31.4	A little later the man woke up, covered in a thin layer of flakes, his hands and feet
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