Cougar Allen
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It was copper. Ötzi was late Neolithic; they used copper but not bronze.
A copper ax is not great for chopping wood, but it works fine as a weapon. He also had a flint dagger, an unfinished bow he was working on, some unfinished arrows, and some arrows made by different people that he had picked up. That's just the arrows in his quiver, not counting the arrow in his back. He won the fight, then retreated to the snow cave and died of his wounds shortly afterward. If he had lost the winners would have taken his ax. That ax was a treasure then.
A copper ax is not great for chopping wood, but it works fine as a weapon. He also had a flint dagger, an unfinished bow he was working on, some unfinished arrows, and some arrows made by different people that he had picked up. That's just the arrows in his quiver, not counting the arrow in his back. He won the fight, then retreated to the snow cave and died of his wounds shortly afterward. If he had lost the winners would have taken his ax. That ax was a treasure then.