Sentences with phrase «ibex meat»

Physical anthropologist Franco Rollo of the University of Camerino in Italy found that Ötzi ate two meals on his final day: one, of cereals and ibex meat, as he was climbing upward through a coniferous forest, and the second, of deer meat and cereals, about three hours before his death high up in the Alps.

Zink's team has now examined its contents, which include plenty of partially digested ibex meat, probably suggesting that Ötzi enjoyed a hearty meal shortly before his death (Journal of Archaeological Science, DOI: 10.1016 / j.jas.2011.08.003).