He had dark skin and was likely bald.
Genome analysis revealed traits such as high skin pigmentation, dark eye colour, and male pattern baldness – discovered in melting ice in The Alps in 1991 – may have had dark skin, dark eyes and a balding head, analysis suggests.
Initial studies of the corpse, also called the Iceman, revealed genetic traces of eastern European steppe herders from 4,900 years ago. However the new study no longer supports this finding. Researchers said technology has advanced since the first study, and many more genomes of other prehistoric Europeans have been fully decoded.Scientists found that among the hundreds of early European people who lived at the same time as Otzi, and whose genomes are now available, Iceman has more ancestry in common with early Anatolian farmers than any of his European counterparts.
‘The genome analysis revealed phenotypic traits such as high skin pigmentation, dark eye colour, and male pattern baldness that are in stark contrast to the previous reconstructions that show a light-skinned, light-eyed and quite hairy male,’ said Johannes Krause, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
‘It was previously thought that the mummy’s skin had darkened during its preservation in the ice, but presumably what we see now is actually largely Otzi’s original skin colour.’
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