Otzi carried 14 arrows in his quiver, but only two had arrowheads and feather fletching. Photo courtesy of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/H. Wisthaler Ötzi the Iceman never had a chance to ...

Only two of the 14 arrows in Otzi’s quiver had their flint tips; the rest were unfinished, possibly because he’d fired others recently. And his bow was unstrung and had never been used.

Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old man ... Scattered bits of leather, plant fiber, animal hide, string, his axe and an unfinished bow were found near him when he was first dug out of the ice.

From left: stone dagger, bows, leather quiver, tinder fungus, birch fungus and birch bark. Institute for Mummies and the Iceman Otzi had a bearskin cap that helped keep him warm in the cold, wet ...

With goat-leather leggings and a brown bear fur hat, the 5,300-year-old mummy must have strutted the Alps with an eclectic style. Otzi the Iceman left behind his leather-heavy wardrobe and a slew ...

Nicknamed Otzi, the prehistoric hunter is complete with fur and grass robes, leather shoes and bow and arrow. Otzi is kept in a specially built museum in Bolzano, Italy.

When the Iceman, nicknamed Otzi, was discovered, ... Because he was armed with an ax, knife, bow and 14 wooden arrows, they assumed that he died on a trek to hunt game. Advertisement.

ROME — A prehistoric Italian iceman nicknamed “Otzi” may have been shot in the back with an arrow, but he died only after prolonged combat with his foes, new DNA evidence has shown. The ...