#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.

Ancient DNA
#Ötzi the Iceman and his neighbors had totally different ancestries

Genomic diversity and structure of prehistoric alpine individuals from the Tyrolean Iceman’s territory
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61601-8

Suggests local and non-local admixture events between HGs and Neolithic farmers