The Mummified body known as "Iceman" shows signs of violent damage that led to his death say the experts.
According to a BBC report on the findings "Iceman 'bled to death on glacier'":
Massive blood loss from a ruptured artery killed the 5,300-year-old Alpine "Iceman" known as Oetzi, tests confirm.
A Swiss-Italian team says the arrow that struck him in the left shoulder slit the artery under his collar bone.
Oetzi probably died as the result of a fight: he may either have fled his attacker - who then shot him in the back - or been ambushed.
The remains of the Neolithic man were discovered in 1991 emerging from a melting glacier.
They have since been subjected to a long series of investigations, with the latest results being published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
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Sidenote on this report:
Killing people to grab their resources is nothing new, but by WW2 the US and the free world had decided and told Hitler and Japan that such actions were a thing of the past. (That was one reason why England and many of the other free nations had to drop their empire afterwards.)
So what are we doing in Iraq for oil?
BTW, both Germany and Japan characterized their actions in their part of the world as saving the regions from communism. Germany went further and pled that they needed to start preemptive wars to keep communism from targeting their country from their neighbors borders. The German logic was accepted as valid by the Nuremburg court which then said it didn't matter. The court ruled that aggressive (now known as preemptive) war is not legal, according to the rulings of that court.
The Bush administration's great success is keeping the logic of the Nuremburg court from Americans or they might be removed from office, preempitvely of course.
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