Throughout history, nutrition has played a crucial role in our development. The study of human remains, like those of the glacier mummy Ötzi, shows how the ingredients of our ancestors’ diets changed over time and what role this played in the spread of humankind.

Jul 13, 2018 · The analysis of Ötzi’s final meal lends important insight into eating and food preparation habits during the Copper Age.

Jun 4, 2024 · Clockwise from top left: Ötzi’s last meal of fire-roasted red deer, smoked goat, and einkorn cakes with fiddlehead ferns. Over 5,000 years ago, before the pyramids and …

Jul 14, 2018 · A mere 2 hours before his grisly murder about 5,300 years ago, Ötzi the iceman chowed down on some mouthwatering morsels: wild meat from ibex and red deer, cereals from einkorn...

Since 1991, when a pair of hikers found the 5,300-year-old hunter in the Ötztal Alps, researchers have been scouring Ötzi's frozen, shriveled form for clues to life in the past and his...

Jun 20, 2011 · SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA —Less than 2 hours before he hiked his last steps in the Tyrolean Alps 5000 years ago, Ötzi the Iceman fueled up on a last meal of ibex meat.

Jul 13, 2018 · Archaeologists analyzed the mummified man's last meal down to the DNA level. In his final days, the Iceman ate a hearty mountaineer’s diet of red deer, wild goat, and whole grain einkorn...

Sep 7, 2021 · Perhaps the best window we have into ancient mummies' lives and deaths is through their stomachs. A glimpse of Otzi’s last meal can tell scientists multitudes about the climate he lived in, the food that was available to him and how he prepared it.

Apr 17, 2012 · Isotope analysis indicates that Otzi's habitual diet was primarily centered around plant foods, likely heavily dependent on grains but also incorporating a variety of other plants (3). He died in the spring with a belly full of einkorn wheat.

Dec 29, 2009 · Ötzi the Iceman is Europe’s oldest mummy, dating back to 3,300 B.C. Ötzi managed to eat a meal of meat, an herb, and bread made from einkorn wheat sometime shortly before his death a. The samples that were pulled showed einkorn wheat finely ground, that would have come from einkorn grain ground down to flour and baked into bread.