Friday, November 9, 2012

Iceman Otzi tied to Stone Age farming
[ Fri, 9 Nov 2012 16:41:37 GMT ]

A new genetic analysis reveals that Otzi the Iceman is most closely related to modern-day Sardinians.Otzi the Iceman, an astonishingly well-preserved Neolithic mummy found in the Italian Alps in 1991, was a native of Central Europe, not a first-generation émigré from Sardinia, new research shows. And genetically, he looked a lot like other Stone Age farmers throughout Europe.


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