Otzi

Shepherd theory Traveller theory Warrior theory
• Otzi’s people might have been farmers as well as travellers and if they were would have needed Shepherds.

• Otzi had weapons that most shepherds carried with them.

• The place where Otzi was found was an important crossing place for shepherds with their animals.

• There were wars over copper and Otzi had a good copper axe and so he might have wanted to be a shepherd so that he wouldn’t be killed for the copper that he had.

• No trace of his village was ever found.

• He had goatskin clothes

• He had Maple leaves from the South

• He had charcoal

• The fact that Otzi had a bow and arrows, knife and an axe suggests that he might have been a shepherd

• • Otzi was found half way up a mountain and also at the time of Otzi his people were travellers.

• Severe arthritis

• The people of the villagers thought him to be magic because he made tools out of copper.

• Otzi could have tried to heal the people of a village and then moved on to other villages.

• Otzi may have been an outcast.

• Otzi could have been alone and running away.

• If Otzi was a healer he might not have been able to heal someone and ran away out of fear that the people of the village would murder him. The evidence that supports this theory is the “medicine” that Otzi carried with him they were also preserved by ice.

• He had shoes made of grass and so if he travelled he would actually be able to find grass. • Otzi was carrying a bow and arrows, a knife and an axe. These items support the theory that Otzi was a Warrior as well as the fact that he had two wounds also supports this fact.

• Otzi lived in violent times, when people killed just for meat.

• Otzi had a severe cut in his hand and a wound in his shoulder which could mean he had been in a battle.

• Different villagers/tribes would kill the people in the surrounding villages just for the tools and food that that village had.

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