Fresh look at DNA from Oetzi the Iceman traces his roots to present day Turkey
NEW YORK (AP) — Oetzi the Iceman has a new look. Decades after the famous glacier mummy was discovered in the Italian Alps, scientists have dug back into his DNA to paint a better picture of the ancient hunter.
They determined that Oetzi was mostly descended from farmers from present day Turkey, and his head was balder and skin darker than what was initially thought, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Cell Genomics.
Oetzi, who lived more than 5,000 years ago, was frozen into the ice after he was killed by an arrow to the back. His corpse was preserved as a “natural mummy” until 1991, when hikers found him along with some of his clothing and gear — including a copper ax, a longbow and a bearskin hat. Since then, many researchers have worked to uncover more about the mummy, which is displayed at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy.
An earlier draft of Oetzi’s genome was published in 2012. But ancient DNA research has advanced since then, so scientists decided to take another look at the iceman’s genes, explained study author Johannes Krause, a geneticist at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. They used DNA extracted from the mummy’s hip bone.
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Thank you for this video.
Just watched it on TV for better viewing. Worth every minute.
I guess this is still the old sample.
He didn't have any matches. His ethnicity was all messed up too.
Oetzi is the black bands. The orange bands are other ancient samples that I match with. (The "matches" are very small fragments)
Oetzi wasn't particularly old compared to the others and he was more well preserved. I had higher matches with Neanderthals..LOL
