The Iceman can give new view of migration
2016-01-07 21:49
Bacteria from the Iceman Ötzi can change the image of the early migration to Europe.
The Iceman was in fact infected with a bacterial strain that has Asian origin, writes unt.se.
Ötzi killed in the Alps 5300 years ago and found in 1991-frozen in a glacier in northern Italy near the border with Austria. But in samples from his stomach, scientists in a new international study found DNA from Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that causes stomach ulcers.
The strain similar to that which is common in Europeans today except that it does not contain the “North African” DNA component that is usually found in them. Instead, Ötzis ulcer bacteria genetically more similar to the strains of bacteria that is believed to have occurred in India.
About Ötzi is representative also for other people in southern and central Europe at the time, the lack of the North African component of his stomach ulcer bacteria that migration from North Africa to Europe, probably first started after the so-called Copper Age, a time later than previously thought, says Professor Lars Engstrand at the Karolinska Institute, one of the researchers behind the study published in the journal Science, the UNT.
The Iceman Ötzi was found in 1991 at 3212 meters altitude in the Italian South Tyrol near the border with Austria.
When he died Ötzi was approximately 45 years old. He was about 160 centimeters tall, had brown eyes and probably he wore dark beard.
He wore clothes made of leather and even parts of his bow, arrow shafts, tinderbox, birch bark containers, tinder, leather straps, braided rope and cord , Barmes and kopparyxa and flint dagger found.
Pollen analyzes of gut contents indicate that he died in June or July. Most likely, he has lain down, fell asleep and froze to death in their sleep.
Ötzi is the oldest human found and have had great importance for the understanding of the Neolithic period in Europe.
Source : National Encyclopedia
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