It is determined that Oetzi is a descendant of farmers from today's Türkiye. He was also balder and had darker skin than what was initially thought, shows study.
A memorial stands at the site where "Oetzi the Iceman" was found in the Italian Alps. / Photo: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
"Among the hundreds of early European people who lived at the same time as Oetzi and whose genomes are now available, Oetzi's genome has more ancestry in common with early Anatolian farmers than any of his European counterparts," said a team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology that worked on the study.
The ancient man, who lived more than 5,000 years ago, was frozen in ice after he was killed by an arrow to the back.
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