Cereals found in the intestines of the hunter's corpse (above) and on his clothes. Kept frozen for hundreds of years
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In the hours before their ship hit the iceberg, the first class passengers of the "Titanic" feasted their hearts on roast pigeon and Waldorf pudding. Texas death row inmates prefer cheeseburgers for their last meal. And Elvis, according to one version, satisfied his hunger before dying with ice cream and cookies; According to another version, it was a sandwich with peanut butter and bananas.
The Iceman, on the other hand - the man from the Neolithic period, whose well-preserved, 5,300-year-old body was found a decade ago in a melting glacier in the Italian Alps - ate red deer meat before he died. This is the conclusion of a DNA analysis carried out on the contents of his intestine by researchers from the University of Camerino in Italy.
The ice man was found by climbers at an altitude of about 3,000 meters, after being kept frozen inside the glacier for thousands of years. According to the objects found next to the body - including arrows and an unfinished bow - researchers speculate that the man was a hunter.
It has been known for some time that the man ate meat and grains before he died from an arrow wound in his shoulder. But the exact composition of his last meals was not known until now. The study, reported last month in the journal of the American National Academy of Sciences, reveals that a few hours before his death the man ate a meal of goat meat, as well as some grains and plants. Analysis of pollen, which was also found in his intestines, shows that he passed through a forest of conifers at a medium height, on his way to the top of the mountain; He may have eaten the goat meat at this point. Then he climbed to the high ground where he ate the venison, and possibly more grain, before he died.
New York Times
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