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A 5000-year-old murder

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That's what I call a cold case file. :)
 

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I saw a documentary on Otzi that included the moment when the archaeologists first moved the body - and I was appalled! They just swung him across onto a plastic sheet. I trained as an archaeologist - and they were just so unprofessional. As far as I could see, they didn't make any record of the body in situ apart from what the documentary makers were filming, and they didn't take up any of the ground surface from under the body, which could have had useful information to give (preserved pollen samples, for instance, or anything that had leached from the body as it lay there).
 
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You gotta be joshing me. I thought getting the soil near/under the body was basic forensic procedure.
 
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Evaine said:
I saw a documentary on Otzi that included the moment when the archaeologists first moved the body - and I was appalled! They just swung him across onto a plastic sheet. I trained as an archaeologist - and they were just so unprofessional. As far as I could see, they didn't make any record of the body in situ apart from what the documentary makers were filming, and they didn't take up any of the ground surface from under the body, which could have had useful information to give (preserved pollen samples, for instance, or anything that had leached from the body as it lay there).
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It was only months later that someone thought to go back to the site and collect most of his woven-grass cape, his shoe, his hat, and his bow. They were just lying around all over the place.
 
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