• Celtic Art & Archaeology

    Ötzi the Iceman’s Last Meal

    Ötzi is the name given to a 5,300-year-old European glacier mummy, the frozen remains of a hunter from the Copper age. He is thought to have been about 45 years old when he died, probably from blood loss after an arrow to the should, some 5,300 years ago. When he died Ötzi was wearing a woven grass coat with wore leggings and shoes of leather. He has some line tattoos that may have been spiritual or medical in nature, and carried a copper axe, a knife and flint-tipped arrows. The first in-depth analysis of the hunter’s stomach contents reveal that half of his last meal consisted of animal fat, primarily…