ÖTZI didn’t die of cold or after a fall—he was shot in the back with an
arrow, Italian researchers think. But only an autopsy will show if they’re
right.
The iceman’s frozen body was found high in the Alps a decade ago. The latest
X-rays and CT scans show what looks like a flint arrowhead in the left shoulder
of the 5300-year-old corpse, says Paul Gostner, head of radiology at Bolzano
General Hospital. The arrow stopped just short of the lung but would have hit
several major blood vessels, says Gostner. “He probably bled to death.”
Earlier X-rays revealed…
