Link to Oetzi the Iceman found in living Austrians

[Sunlei]

Austrian scientists have found that 19 Tyrolean men alive today are related to Oetzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old frozen body was found in the Alps. Their relationship was established through DNA analysis by scientists from the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck Medical University.

Walther Parson from the Institute told APA, the Austrian Press Agency, that the same mutation might be found in the nearby Swiss region of Engadine and in Italy's South Tyrol region. "We have already found Swiss and Italian partners so that we can pursue our research," he said

Since Oetzi was first found by hikers with an arrow buried in his back, experts have determined that he died from his wounds. There has been extensive debate as to whether he fell where he died or was buried there by others.

BBC Europe News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24477038

[Warpy]

1. Oetzi was murdered but not robbed

I seriously doubt anyone would have taken the care to bury him under those circumstances. Besides, he'd have been more likely to be under a cairn of stones instead of being frozen into the ice.

I have always had the suspicion he was diddling somebody else's wife and that's the reason for his trip and his murder.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Considering the value of the items he was carrying,

your theory might be close to the truth.

PBS did an excellent show on this a year or so ago. I'll see if I can find a link.

ETA:
Here you go:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2159408847/
Iceman Murder Mystery

[Hekate]

2. Very cool! I love this stuff. There's a little village in England...

... where some prehistoric bones were found, whose residens consented to have their DNA checked against that of the bones. Turns out quite a few of the villagers apparently had ancestors who never strayed far from home over the last several thousand years.

[treestar]

3. Amazing they can trace DNA

from that long a period of time.

[Quantess]

5. Wow, interesting. (no text)