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Where are mummies of other villagers? Everyone of the villagers should also be preserved as icy mummies in the same region. Right?
by srinivaskag 10y ago
Where are mummies of other villagers? Everyone of the villagers should also be preserved as icy mummies in the same region. Right?
- Jaruzel 10y agoWrong. It's assumed that the village in question was located lower down in the valley. Ozti himself was found very high up (10,000+ feet).
- simonh 10y agoHe wasn’t found is the remains of a village, but at a solo camp site far up in the mountains. He was killed there and his body was covered in snow and ice soon after, which preserved it. Analysis of his stomach contents gives evidence that he visited a village down in the valley where it would be warmer and had a meal there, because semi-digested food in his stomach is consistent with the sort of food you’d normally only have access to in that kind of environment. I think that's mainly from pollen analysis. It would be very unusual to find an entire village and it’s population entombed in ice. They would all have to die at the same time (nobody left to bury the bodies) and their bodies be left exposed and undisturbed to be frozen. Usually when someone dies the rest of the population would bury them, but in this case because he was killed and abandoned the body was left in a situation where it could be naturally preserved.