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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Knoll on January 19, 2016, 08:15:31 pm

Title: Otzi provides intriguing clues re human migration - link fixed
Post by: Knoll on January 19, 2016, 08:15:31 pm

Cool analysis and point of view.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/science/otzi-the-iceman-stomach-bacteria-europe-migration.html?_r=0

Title: Re: Otzi provides intriguing clues re human migration
Post by: Ed Brooks on January 20, 2016, 10:51:57 am

I couldn't get it to open. Ed

Title: Re: Otzi provides intriguing clues re human migration - link fixed
Post by: Knoll on January 20, 2016, 12:04:09 pm

thanks, Ed . . . fixed it.

Title: Re: Otzi provides intriguing clues re human migration - link fixed
Post by: JW_Halverson on January 20, 2016, 02:43:47 pm

I read that a while back and thought that while it was interesting, it was an awful small statistical sampling rom which to draw conclusions. 

I also remember reading that by measuring the isotopes in his teeth and bones that they believed he was born and grew up not far away in Italy.

But the thing that got my mind to running around on rabbit tracks was thinking about what made Otzi so different that he travelled far and wide when most people probably never went more than a couple handfuls of miles from where they were born in their whole lives?

Title: Re: Otzi provides intriguing clues re human migration - link fixed
Post by: Urufu_Shinjiro on January 20, 2016, 05:06:42 pm

Quote from: JW_Halverson on January 20, 2016, 02:43:47 pm

But the thing that got my mind to running around on rabbit tracks was thinking about what made Otzi so different that he travelled far and wide when most people probably never went more than a couple handfuls of miles from where they were born in their whole lives?

IIRC didn't he have some shamanic items with him? Traveling holy man would make sense.