After all, Ötzi, the iceman, had ancestors totally different from his comrades

A new study revealed that Ötzi, the iceman, had a unique family lineage. This is because he had totally different descent from his closest friends.

A new analysis of the old DNA of 15 people who lived in the Italian Alps at the same time as the Iceman shows that his ancestry was different from that of your friends.

On the fringes of a study recently in the Nature Communicationsthe team of the Institute of Mummies Studies in Bolzano, Italy, analyzed the genomes of 47 people who lived in the Alps, between the Mesolithic and the average bronze age, about 6400 to 1300 BC, to learn more about their ancestry.

The most famous individual who examined was Ötzi, who lived 5300 years ago in the Alps, before he was. His mummified and frozen corpse was discovered by tourists in 1991.

Given that an earlier study concluded that Ötzi had “an unusual ascendance of Anatolian farmers”, investigators wanted to investigate whether the neighbors of the Iceman-who lived in the Alps at the age of copper, between 3368 and 3108 AC-had a similar ancestry or were more linked to groups of eurical spare hunters.

The analysis of the ancient genomes revealed that most prehistoric alpine peoples had a high proportion of anatolian farmers’ descent (80% to 90%) and a low proportion of ancestry of hunters-recolector. Most of these peoples also had a genomic structure and similar descent, they wrote in the study.

Ötzi’s unique lineage

As details, the Y chromosome data, which help to trace the paternal lineage, revealed that almost all tested men shared an ancestry similar to that found in Germany and prehistoric France.

However, Ötzi On the contrary, it had a different paternal lineage who was more widespread – wrote the investigators.

A kind lineage of Ötzi It has never been identified in other individuals old or modern; And it was not found in any of the other alpine peoples analyzed in the study.

“We have no information about the cultural group to which Iceman may have belonged,” wrote the researchers, quoted by Live Science. “Therefore, our discoveries continue to leave open some questions about genetic origin and the cultural affiliation of this enigmatic individual”.