The arrow was not found until 2001 when an arrow ... 3 inches and has been preserved for 5,300 years. This means that Otzi is older than the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge, the South Tyrol ...

Otzi was crossing the Tisenjoch pass in the Val Senales valley when he was shot in the back with an arrow by a Southern Alpine archer and became naturally preserved in the ice. The arrowhead is ...

The Neolithic guy -- dubbed Otzi the Iceman, or "Frozen Fritz ... Severely wounded by an arrow and possibly dispatched with a blow to the head by a cudgel, he died, his body froze and was ...

Though Otzi's body underwent several scientific tests to study life in the prehistoric age, it had so far been unclear whether he died from an arrow wound, a bad fall or severe freezing while ...

Forensic techniques have revealed that Otzi was enjoying a meal when his treacherous killer unleashed his fatal arrow. A team of police detectives and scientists have used the latest criminology ...

since many other objects were still on or near Otzi when his body was discovered, the assumption is the assailant-archer retrieved the fatal arrow. Otzi bears other signs of violent death ...

The 5,000-year-old iceman Otzi, discovered in 1991 in a Tyrolean glacier, died when an arrowhead pierced an artery near his shoulder, causing him to bleed to death in a few minutes, Swiss ...

But what killed Otzi in the end appears to have been an arrow to the back. And what happened at some point following his death — either a deliberate burial or a final accidental fall into a ...

By Scott Roxborough super_user Scientists have pored over Otzi’s remains ... an early example of acupuncture treatment, to a fresh arrow wound in his shoulder and a blow to his head that ...