Neither light-skinned, nor hairy, nor did he come from the east. A new genetic analysis of Ötzi, the man mummified in the ice of the Alps, redraws the image we had of the most famous European Neolithic. Found in 1991 by a pair of German mountaineers in a glacier, his mummy has been studied in detail, finding out how he was killed or what he last ate. A decade ago, the complete genome of the so-called ice man. Fed by that data and some imagination, its appearance was more like what the prehistoric films have depicted than what it should have looked like in reality. Now, a new genetic study concludes that he was probably bald, had very dark skin and his ancestors were farmers who came from Anatolia, modern-day Turkey.
