The frozen man is made of the skin was found in 1991 in the Alps, wore a hat of bearskin and a jacket was made from sheep and goat skin.
The quiver of Ötzi a deer and leggings are made of cow leather.
researchers at University College Dublin in the journal scientific Reports .
Dissolution
the scientists used DNA testing to determine the origin of the clothes of the ice mummy. The animal skins used in making the jacket, hat and leggings These are in advanced state of decomposition. It is therefore impossible to see to the structure of the leather of animal species which the material originates.
Irish researchers were able to isolate mitochondrial DNA from the hides. This is DNA that is not located in a cell nucleus, but in the mitochondria, a kind of power plants of cells. Often this genetic material is preserved for longer.
Wild
The new information on the clothes of Ötzi sheds new light on his life, reports the news site of the journal Science .
Until now, scientists believed that the Iceman in his care provided by livestock. But since his hat is made of bearskin hunted Ötzi and his contemporaries probably wild animals
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