How Did Oetzi, the Iceman, Die?

yer but if Oetzi had died from an head trauma, an head blow shouldn't it show on his skull or even on his head ?

wat if he died from severel thing like head troma .arrow.infections who knows u cant really give a perfect logect he may have been murded or bled to death maybe both who knows ? anyway wat if they missed something from the sceen there might b something hidden tht excpanes what happend i wanna know all this ?

According to the documentary i watched on Oetzi he was a Tribel leader and may have been hunted down by enemy tribes. Then again there were so many different reasons of his death it even said that because he may have been a tribel leader he could have had a ceromony on the mountains leading him up to the Gods. But then the question arises why would the Tribe kill their leader was he maybe offering himself up to the Gods. I don't think we will ever find out how Oetzi died. There are just so many different way he could have passed on. Surely th arrow head had something to do with it according to the documentary the arrow head had hit a nerve point witch very well could have killed him.

I think the iceman was murdered by an arrow. I think the shot was from 30 meters back. The arrow hit him 4 inches above his heart. He died 48 hours later.

no he died from hypothermia

no beacuse it was 4 inches from his heart if it hit him in his heart he would of died

I don't think we will ever know why Otzi passed on but yes it very well could have been Hypothermia but i do think that the arrow head had something to do with it according to the documentary i watched the arrow head hit an artery or nerve so that could have very well killed him.

I am learning this in school and ours true, a bowhit him in
the back

thank im doing a school reaport and this really helped me...

he did from head trama thats what i think and from blood loss

i thought he died from freezing

he got hit by an arrow and died of bloob loss

or from sickness or the altitude 3200 meters above sea level thats preety hi lol :p

You people have very horrifying grammatical and spelling errors in your comments.

Thank you for saying that!

agreed lololol

thx i always wanted to no i have da goodest grammer

And I am annoyed by the annoyed grammar freeks. Annoyed and sick.

that is not how he died

then what really did happen because i need to do a essay on Otzi and I need to hand it in tomorrow.

What ive learnt is that he got shot with an arrow from quite a distance and that it went 3 cm deep into Oetzi's back and then he slowly died due to blood loss and a heart attack.

I know this is for a grade in reading i need to know

I dont belive that he got shot in the head

im doing a school report on this

so am i :)

scary

I think Otzi got killed by the arrow head

i think/know died by the ice or by an arrow by an assiasnn dude

how could he die from and arrow if they didn't get any arrows from him in the first place

I think oetzi was killed by the blow from the arrow in his back

um yeah he did

i think he was killed by an attack from the back because of the trauma to the skull and the arrow head in his shoulder blade.

In Social Studies, I learned about Otzi the Iceman, there are so many different theories about how he died, I don't know which to believe.

i think he died for a ritual sacrifice

this is a dead man and it is the oldest man this website helped me os thankyou

Yes Rudy i think i heard that somewhere too :)

i think it is someone form the very future kill it but it is kill by a spear so it can't be

I think that otzi was a shepered and when he brought his sheep up the Alps some dude with a bow and arrow shot him so he could take his sheep. So then otzi died in the Alps with his sheep stolen.

It gave us alot of information for a reading class for school that we are doing right now!! :)

so awesome...

He was fat and tripped and fell on his head

ewwwww i was learning about this in science godddd this is so weird i feel bad for him where can find him anyway?

HHHHHHHHHHHEYEEEY HE DIED CAUSE OF AN ARROW

Was there a wound to his head?

This is what we are learning about in school and its insteresting but weird at the same time. My teacher leaves us hanging in saspitions. We learn alot everyday and just want to no more. This story is amazeing

I belive he was shot with an arrow from behind and either feel and rolled over or was rolled over by the shooter and the arrow was then taken out by the shooter witch is why he is on his stomack with his arm in a wired possition across his cheast

he wasent shot in the head he was shot in the shoulder with a arrow i think the shooter took out another arrow we dident know about that would explain the other wounds and just left the other arrow in

Got to love the spelling of these comments!

I agree with you the spelling is just perfect

who cares if theres spellin errors? it doesnt matter spelling freaks

Agreed this is some awsome spelling hay :)

no one cares bout this old man :L

you are so mean!!!!!!!

i read the book how interisting

i don't think that is how he died

He died because he was hunting a wolf and a pack of hunters ( other peole ) flung an arrow and stuck him.

Another possibility was that he was in war in the mountains and got stuck by a arrow and fled, He fled for hours untill he hit the mark where he needed to die, He lay down on the snow put down his bow and axe and pulled out the arrow and tossed it away. He layed on the ground nd slowly died in pain.

He didn't die from hypothermia he died from an arrow shooting him in his left shoulder.

He died as a result of bleeding form the arrow. He pulled the arrow out himself as it was found amongst the items found with the body. He was in times of unrest and war as several peoples blood other than his own was found on his arrows and coat. The damage to the back of the head was caused post mortim, as the place where he died and was frozen thawed several times over the 5000 years he was there and he floated around and hit rocks in the thawed water.

This kind of history really amazes me it's so ALSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! comment if you think it is ALSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry but it is

According to the documentary i watched on Otzi he could have been a tribel leader and was hunted b maybe an enemy tribe. He could also have been brought to the mountain to become a sacrifice to the Gods but then i have to wonder would a tribe give up their leader or would they get maybe someone less impotent to be the sacrifice. I don't think we will ever find out how Otzi passed on. There could be so may reasons also according to the documentary i watched the arrow head hit an artery or nerve and that could have very well killed him.

i thought he slipped AND DIED

maybe Otzi was a reliogous leader and people didn't like his religion

well not really people like people like him because he is a leader

i think otzi died of assassanation

who whould have killed him and why? and if someone killed him why would they not steal his stuff? and is it true that he was found naked? if so why?

he was not found naked im i 6th grade and i understand this he had his clothes on but his other items was around him for us to find if you ask me!!!

he could not have died of the arrow if it hit an artery then it would take hours but i think it was head trama and blood loss

i think it was hypothermia because he could have been hulisanting and removed his clothes. the hole in th back of his head just migth be from falling on one of his sharp tools next he fell into the waterf like pond and the sharp knife or tool fell off and then a enmy and aproced and shot him in the back witih an arrow becaus eof th epain he we was in.

I think otzi died from an attack by other people and he died from blood loss. Cause when they put a camera his body there was not any blood left in there , and it wouldve been there because it would've been frozen in his body.

He got shot by an arrow.

where did he live?

i think iceman was a guy who was nice and may wont to live and when he was going to die he wont to rit somethink so someone or how case he wold have a few minntes to rit it

OMIGOD LOL HE Took and arrow to the knee hutch was here

I think he dyed from hyperthermia

He did not die from hypothermia because the coat was warm. He died in battle because he had 4 different types if blood on his coat and weapons

hi all this may sound like crap but it isnt

- I Think This Story Is Very Intersting. !

otzi got shot>>>>> ;o

its good.

He probaly been killed by an arrow, the arrow head in his shoulder make him collapse in the ice and freezing to death.

I think Otzi was killed by the wound in his back which was shot by some one else. So a murder

i think that it was cool because the iceman is 5,300 yrs old and because of the ice it kept his body sort of perfect and he had skin nails and more it wasn't just bone like what you will find in like Africa or some place else. but in the article you should add how old he was (40).

I think he did die from the arrow wound. But it is odd cause they might have found the blood from his back, unless he died, but I also think the temperature would have helped him pass away faster. We may not find the exact cause of death. The good news is we have so much evidence for his death compared to many other events in history

You need to research Ötzi a bit more because half your 'facts' are wrong. Also, you need to look at your grammar and word use.
Ötzi was named after the Ötztal Alps, not the other way around (because scientists are never going to find out what his real name was).

because of hypothermia

SO, he basically died from head trauma orhe bled to death. My analysis says he more than likely died from freezing to death.

could he have been hunting?

i think this is really bad and really interesting because this is old and good for your education in humanities

I have a report on him and this is what I have so far.
THE ICE MAN
The Ice Man was born 3300 BCE he died 3255 BCE, he was a tall man brown eyes and black hair people don’t exactly know how he died he could have been a shepherded showing his sheep the way home or a lost farmer finding his way home. His belongings were his fur hat, straw shoes, wood staff, bow and arrow the arrows, hay cloak, his copper axe, and his flint knife. He was 5 feet 5 inches, when he was frozen he could have shrunk in that long 5,300 years he was frozen! All of his eternal organs were saved by the freeze over! All of the guts and organs and icky stuff and eyes his brains too! But his skin froze off and got bad frost bite. The Ice Man died of an arrow wound to his shoulder! The mountain he was climbing had a curse, the curse of The Pharaohs, The Mountains name was Ozti. His body when frozen was found with many tattoos straight lines found on the lumbar spine. He was found by a Nuremburg couple taking a hike. Without these people we would not know this amazing discovery! Some people think it’s grows I think it’s pretty cool!

Ya I had this for school and it helped me 2

your weird

He died from lack of blood and a arrow in his shoulder and he fell and probably hit his head on a rock dahh

i think he died by freezing to death