Dumb question for smart people

[oldfella1962]

You hang in there! When a smart question for dumb people comes, it will be your time to shine.

 

[Crakajak]

Hatchet Jack was preserved well.Must have been the altitude and ice.Even his gun stock was preserved

 

[Nicodemus]

Hatchet Jack was preserved well.Must have been the altitude and ice.Even his gun stock was preserved

So was Otzi.

 

[oldfella1962]

So was Otzi.

Yes Otzi was a great discovery! Like a window into prehistory. I'm going to have to review it because I can't remember if they extracted any usable DNA or not and if so, what that revealed about him. Acidic low oxygen peat bogs (such as in Scotland & Ireland for example) turn up well preserved bodies now & then too, but nothing as old as Otzi as far as I know.

 

[mguthrie]

Bog body - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[mguthrie]

Seems that most bog body bones have decomposed but the bodies stayed intact

 

[mguthrie]

Yes Otzi was a great discovery! Like a window into prehistory. I'm going to have to review it because I can't remember if they extracted any usable DNA or not and if so, what that revealed about him. Acidic low oxygen peat bogs (such as in Scotland & Ireland for example) turn up well preserved bodies now & then too, but nothing as old as Otzi as far as I know.

The link I posted says at least one was from 8000 bce

 

[Throwback]

How can “they” tell me what happened 5 billion years ago when “they” can’t even tell me what the weather is gonna be like next week ?

 

[Throwback]

The link I posted says at least one was from 8000 bce

How do “they” know it wasn’t 7,000 BC?

 

[oldfella1962]

Seems that most bog body bones have decomposed but the bodies stayed intact

Interesting! So the opposite of fossilization, yet still very well preserved! And I do know that bog bodies preserve fine details like exact facial features & whatnot. Okay it's settled! No cremation, no standard "cemetery" burial, I want a "bog body" disposition of my remains!

 

[mguthrie]

How do “they” know it wasn’t 7,000 BC?

Maybe they had a note in their pocket?

 

[oldfella1962]

Maybe they had a note in their pocket?

 

[Nicodemus]

Yes Otzi was a great discovery! Like a window into prehistory. I'm going to have to review it because I can't remember if they extracted any usable DNA or not and if so, what that revealed about him. Acidic low oxygen peat bogs (such as in Scotland & Ireland for example) turn up well preserved bodies now & then too, but nothing as old as Otzi as far as I know.

What killed him was an arrow. The folks doing all the work on his remains didn`t realize that for around ten years. Flint arrowhead in the edge of one of his lungs.

 

[fishfryer]

Hatchet Jack was preserved well.Must have been the altitude and ice.Even his gun stock was preserved

He rubbed it down with a Bucees brisket sammich

 

[Crakajak]

He rubbed it down with a Bucees brisket sammich

Probably bear grease.

 

[fishfryer]

Probably bear grease.

I was thinking about all the preservatives in that Sammich, they might preserve it like an Egyptian mummy, or in his case daddy.

 

[oldfella1962]

What killed him was an arrow. The folks doing all the work on his remains didn`t realize that for around ten years. Flint arrowhead in the edge of one of his lungs.

An arrow? I thought Dr. Fauci said Covid did him in!

 

[mark-7mag]

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[sinclair1]

Threads like this were NOYDB's specialty