Otzi was in  important person, you may ask what he was famous for….. Well no one knows. Some scientist don’t really know a lot about him some do know about him. He was also in his mid forties, and he was claimed to be short. He was heading into the mountains he was getting assassinated or getting murdered, he did not know about this. He was sickly, he had three diseases in the last six months, and he also had really bad stomach aches.

Let’s talk about his life. When he was heading to the mountains he had tools with him such as a copper ax, unfinished arrows and a bow…. Which is not going to help him, by protecting himself by enemies or by animals if an enemy was trying to kill him and that’s the only thing he had then he will die. Same with the animal part if a wild animal was trying to kill him then he will get badly injured or even die, also if he is hungry then he can use his bow to kill the animal he would have to sneak up and kill it, which is going to be hard since the animal will run away from him. He also had up to three layers of clothing, which makes sense because he was in the cold mountains.

What he ate was deer, goat, plants, grains ( not cereal ) he also had something that only grew in the spring which indicated he was in the mountains during the spring.

His death…. He was in the mountains below 6,500 above sea level during his deat. He was possibly assassinated (murdered) as well. He was shot by an arrow in the left shoulder behind. Only one scientist figured this out when this happend, only the shard was stuck in the shoulder which made it harder to spot. He died because of his heart rate or he bleed to death which is a shock. And different people would make different arrows, it would be unique like our fingerprints. When this occurred they tried to take the arrow out, but only the shard was still in. He was found in a cave dead.

 Otzi

                                                           By: Kaitlyn P

As i bolted up the mountain snow and ice crunching under my boots and flying away from me. Small multiple footsteps followed behind me, my attackers holding bows and arrow in the palms of their hands. The last bit of deer and leafs I ate helping me stay in front of them just by the tiniest bit. Yells of rage and anger boomed behind me, echoing throughout the icy mountains.

I sat on top of a fallen down tree eating the last of the cooked deer I had in my backpack and a few plants i had gathered in the forest on my way to a nearby village over the mountains. I was a well respected leader for my village, even though some didn’t like that. My stomach ached and growled deeply as I held my chest in a bit of pain, but I kept eating. I needed to keep my strength up if i wanted to get to the village alive. The howl of the wind flew by, as my hair swept in all directions, sweeping back and forth every moment. I sighed a bit and got up, picking up my backpack and putting the rest of the plants away in my backpack, i picked up my bow and my ax and put my arrows in their holder and continued on. Night grew closer as I marched my way up the mountain again, taking very few minute breaks along the way to catch my tired breath.  I sighed a bit and kept walking, then i paused near the top seeing a cave like object I started to sprint towards the large rock and soon hid under it Like a dog cowering under doghouse in a storm. i put my hands in the insides of my clothes, trying to keep them from freezing over in the winds.

As night came over me like a blanket, a cold harsh blanket. I could hear the faint howls and screeches of animals in the distance. I picked up my ax and held onto it encase of any attackers. I sighed quietly and huddled in the corner of the rocks, my hands tucked in my clothes and my ax beside me. I slowly closed my eyes as i drifted asleep. A zip echoed through the air as crumbles of stone went near me, I jolted awake and turned my head quickly. The shaft of the arrow right near my face.  I jolted back away from the weapon as I heard the crumbling of snow with a yell booming throughout the mountain “ YOU TRAITOR HOW COULD YOU EVEN MADE A DEAL WITH THEM”multiple footsteps ran up the mountain right outside of the cave.

I quickly got up and grabbed all my supplies and started to run. I almost lost my footing on the snow and rock as I quickly ran. I quickly glanced behind me at my attackers. Seeings there faces I remembered them, they’re the blacksmiths from my village, my village. He growled a bit in his head at the thought, they were one of the others from the village who criticized the deal. The deal we had to keep our villages save, to protect each other.

As I kept running, the dear and plants I ate keeping my speed up, one of the last things i heard was a zip through the air and someone yelling “ DIE TRAITOR” and the sound of my own blood, dripping onto the white fluffy snow. I felt something horribly sharp go though my shoulder. I yelled in pain as i turned to see a arrow. Sweat started to drip down my forehead even though it was chilly as the arctic. I heard my heartbeat speed up as I was slowly beginning to die. I gave a scream in pain as my attackers kept running towards me. I the last thing i felt was being light headed and thinking i’m going to die here. I’m going to die. And I collapsed passed out. My head slamming into a rock sticking out of the snow, creating a massive hole in my head. The attackers quickly ran for the arrow and took it out. Blood flowing out of the wound onto the white snow staining it a horrible dark red. They left all my supplies and took off into the howling winds.

In my opinion is that he was a thief and he stole the copper. So he was being hunted down ,and the injury in his hand was another arrow that was shot at his hand when he was escaping. Then a few days latter he found some stuff to make bread and other foods hw also got some sticks  and made some string to make a bow and arrows. He heard some voices so he continued running and. Then when he thought he was safe he was shot with arrow in his shoulder. And then he tied to crawl away but then he died. Then they were going to get the copper but a snow storm came and covered it up.

THE ICEMAN

The iceman live in the wilderness and had a bow, and arrows and he was like the vip and had an axe with a copper tip and 12 unfinished arrows and he was small and and old and had lots of tools lived around 8000 bce but the question we don’t know is who killed him and were he was going. When they found him he had a hole in the back of his skull from an arrow but the last thing he eat was a deer and grain and goat.

Otzi was an older man in his mid-40’s living in Northern Italy. He had 3 diseases, a parasite that made him have stomach aches and in general was not in good health. On top of that, he was a very rich man that was hated by everyone in his village. Everyone hated Otzi because he had everything he wanted in life and everyone was jealous of him. Because everyone was jealous of him, some of the village members that he lived with, tried to steal his belongings from him and the result would end up in a fight. Otzi would most of the time end up with hurt hands and would feel very disrespected. Otzi knew that he would be killed for what he has if he doesn’t get out of him village that he lived at all his life and move somewhere far away.

In mid-spring, he packed all his valuable things and the essentials, which included of a copper axe, an unfinished bow and arrows. He waited till around 1:00 a.m. because he didn’t want to risk being caught past the village curfew and set on his way. When he was at the bottom of the mountain to start his journey, 2 of his worst village enemies saw him and started to come after him. Otzi was terrified and started running up the mountain. He ran as fast as he could but his heavy bag and his sicknesses slowed him down. At one point he decided that he lost the 2 other villagers and sat down to get some rest. In the morning, his stomach growled and was hurting more than ever before. So he set off looking for some taste food that can get his energy back up. He looked and looked for something to kill until he found the perfect thing, a deer. He killed the deer, ate it and started to walk again.

Otzi climbed for days until he got to the top of the mountain, and rested for a few days in a cave. One day, he was standing outside of the cave, wondering where he should go to make a new home. In a blitz second, he was on the ground. One of the 2 village enemies shot an arrow from behind into his shoulder. The arrow hit one of Otzi’s important arteries in his shoulder. Bleeding in his shoulder increased, his heart rate changed, he started to sweat profusely and then passed out. The villager came up to his after he passed out and hit his on the head with a rock so that he would definitely be dead. The villager ran off leaving his body to freeze, and telling everyone in the village that he just ran off, and would never be seen again.

           My name is Otzi. I was a small elderly man traveling through the south alps up in the high mountains. I was a very important person so I can’t imagine why it ended like this. It was very cold going up the mountain so I put on 3 layers of clothing. I was making arrows but I only got half of them made. I was very sick because I had 3 diseases that’s probably bad but I was going to go up that mountain. I forget what the 2 diseases are but one of them is I had parasites in my stomach. Before my wonderful life came to a bad ending my last delightful meal was deer meat and grains and my oh my was it delicious. But, for one thing I know I was murdered I don’t know why because I am a very important person. I’m pretty sure I was murdered because some meany shot and arrow in my shoulder, made me have a hole in my head, and made me go into hemorrhagic shock. That’s how my wonderful life came to a terrible end.