More Otzi info

That was a fun article. Otzi would probably be scandalized by the sheer amount of tool steel we all have lying around, unused. 45 miles through rugged, mountainous terrain with unfriendly inhabitants and fauna seems like a lot for a luxury blade, but if my livelihood depended on it then I would have to suck it up.
 
Those tools were life or death for him, simple as that.... besides, I'd also suspect trade might have shortened the overall route traveled.
 
BTW, that's beautiful country there. The new Alfa Romeo Stelvio is named after the Stelvio Pass which is just south of Switzerland. Miles of switchbacks which an Alfa Romeo can take with ease !!
 
Always a curiosity when it comes to tummies, err... Mummies ;-)
Yeah, even better when knives of sorts are uncovered!
It helps filling in the picture of the development of edge tools.
What's more with the actual tools still in existence for all to see.
Now I know for a fact that stone tools would probably remain better
If not well preserved in a buried state,
I just might have to add a few for my afterlife plans...
Otzi and those like him are invaluable to uncovering the truth
of the past.
Appreciate op's heads up!
 
No, no, no no, no!
The conclusion the article makes doesn't stand up to even a modicum of scrutiny.

He had materials from as far away as 45miles, and therefore they concluded that he traveled up to 45 miles to get them? Really?
You don't think some enterprising neolithic man figured out he could travel and trade from one community to another? That's a profession that has been around since the dawn of man. Who is to say that he didn't pick up the stones in one community, travel 45 miles and then trade a stone to Otzi for a pound of Ibex jerky, or bitcoins or whatever.
Moreover, in one paragraph the article even says that
This supports previous evidence suggesting that alpine Copper Age communities maintained long-distance relationships, scientists say.
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So it stands to reason that traders could meet in the middle, therefore the trek is only 22.5miles for each party, or that they could simply trade with one another where sometimes you come to my village, and sometimes I go to yours. Either way, there's nothing that says that Otzi did any of that. Merely that he had the products from villages as far as 45 miles. But if Neolithic Dave knows his buddy, Neolithic Sam came from the oogabooga village 45 miles away, and brought some really good pieces of flint, you don't imagine he's going to invite over his buddy Otzi for pizza and hook him up with a good stone?

You see what I mean? Having the material doesn't indicate, and cannot for one nanosecond, be taken to indicate that Ozti did any of that traveling himself.

You know some day in the year 6,000, some archeologist is gonna find my mummified self on the sofa in my house, and read the tag that says "made in China." Next thing you know the headline will be "ancient guy traveled from Connecticut to China to get a sofa."
 
Of course , you've got it right . Damascus blade ? there was no blade making operation in Damascus .That was a major trade route city. Those blades were made in India !!
In northern Italy there are restored old iron making operations . Gun makers , Beretta for one, are found in the same area.
 
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