Ötzi the Iceman is modern nicknames of a well-preserved natural mumm of a man from about 3300 BC found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. Why he died was a mystery for a long time, till the time we radiologists intervened. Initially it had been believed that Ötzi died from exposure during a winter storm. Later it was speculated that Ötzi had been a victim of a ritual sacrifice. In 2001 X-rays and a CT scan revealed that Ötzi had an arrowhead lodged in one shoulder when he died and a matching small tear on his coat.
In the article originally published in the Journal of Archaeological Science,
“lesion of a close-to-the-shoulder artery has been found… lesion of the dorsal wall of the left subclavian artery, the artery underneath the clavicle, caused by an earlier, already-detected arrowhead that remains in the back. In addition, a large haematoma could be visualized in the surrounding tissue. By incorporating historic as well as modern data on the survival ship of such a severe lesion, the scientists concluded that the Iceman died within a short time due to this lesion.”
“lesion of a close-to-the-shoulder artery has been found… lesion of the dorsal wall of the left subclavian artery, the artery underneath the clavicle, caused by an earlier, already-detected arrowhead that remains in the back. In addition, a large haematoma could be visualized in the surrounding tissue. By incorporating historic as well as modern data on the survival ship of such a severe lesion, the scientists concluded that the Iceman died within a short time due to this lesion.”
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